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AMONG THE CORALS IN FESTIVALS
November 9, 2022
Among The Corals at the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival of New York !
Among The Corals - 26’ documentary
In the summer of 2021, explorer Luc Hardy and filmmaker Fabiano d’Amato followed scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute set sail for a three-week expedition on the Pacific coast of Panama to study uniquely resilient corals, known as Super Corals, for the Rohr Reef Resilience Project. A diverse and multinational team of researchers explore the reefs of Panama to uncover some of the secrets which make some of these corals resilient and resistant to the effects of climate change.
This new short documentary will available on Ecoflix from november 20 to december 20 2022 for the WCFF!
DJIBOUTI MISSION
September 30, 2022
A 12 days expedition in the Red Sea !
Aboard a ship in search of understanding the coral reefs of the Red Sea
Pax Arctica accompanied the Transnational Red Sea Center on a scientific mission to Djibouti to study the resistance to climate change of the magnificent corals of this country located at the entrance to the Red Sea.
The coral samples collected during the mission will undergo DNA studies in the laboratory of the Marine Science Station (MSS) in Aqaba, Jordan. The mission brought together a multinational team including, scientists and students from several EPFL laboratories, teachers, technicians and Students from in addition to researchers and students from the CERD, the Red Sea University in Port Sudan and the University of Djibouti. A documentary produced by Sagax Entertainment, directed by Fabiano d’Amato will be released in 2023.
PAX SARGASSUM - TO BE RELEASED SOON
November 4, 2022
Documentary about the invasion of sargassum (brown algae) in Caribbean and Western Africa
Pax Sargassum - 52’ documentary
A documentary film that travels on land and at sea in the regions impacted by the presence of sargassum (brown algae) from the West African coasts (Ivory Coast, Ghana) to the Caribbean (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Barbados, St. Lucia, etc.), the original area of this invasion, through Florida and Mexico, also affected by these problems. We meet scientists, citizens and entrepreneurs trying to understand this phenomenon and discover innovative solutions.
PRESS
August 24, 2020
EZVID WIKI : THE WORLD'S VIDEO WIKI
5 Organizations Fighting For The Arctic Region
The Pax Arctica initiative has been included in their recently published video "Organizations Fighting For The Arctic Region".The Arctic region is composed of oceans and seas as well as parts of Alaska, Finland, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Russia, Norway, and Sweden. A richly biodiverse part of the world, it is being threatened by climate change. Pax Arctica is one of the many organizations existing to protect this unique place.