Seaspiracy Favorite 

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Date: 

Mar 25 2021

Location: 

Online

"Seaspiracy, a documentary-styled film released on Netflix this week, intends to shock, and on that count it succeeds.
The 90-minute exposé shows ocean pollution and its vast effects on marine life; it displays grotesque images of dolphins and whales being slaughtered and of vast bycatch species dying, alleging that commercial fisheries have little regard for marine animals and birds; and it outright dismisses aquaculture for its use of marine ingredients and for what it says are poor culture environments."-Lauren Kramer

External sources: 

https://www.aquaculturealliance.org/advocate/seaspiracy-film-assails-fishing-and…
Posted by mer551 on Mar 30 2021

Staff rating: 

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Effectiveness

How does this project help?

Activates (people)Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
Amplifies (issue or campaign)Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign.  Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.

Timeframe For change

This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear long-term goal. Long-term goals tend to be things like: end racism; end homophobia; make the sun stand still in the sky. A campaign with a long-term goal also needs to have some kind of theory of change.
This project aims for viewers to participate in a long-term lifestyle change.

Notes

I believe facts that are supported by images and video footage have a great impact. Documentary films tend to be a successful outlet for social change or at least awareness to occur.