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Deep Rising - Film Documentary with President at The Oxygen Project

  • Sundance Mountain Resort - Screening Room 8841 North Alpine Loop Road Sundance, UT, 84604 United States (map)

Deep Rising - Film Documentary with President at The Oxygen Project

Film Screening and discussion with Vasser Seydel
May 18, 2024
6:00 PM
Screening Room
Sundance Mountain Resort

Q&A and Reception to Follow

Brought to you in partnership with the Redford Center—Sundance Nature Alliance is excited to host this special screening of Mattieu Rytz' acclaimed documentary film Deep Rising.

DEEP RISING is a tale of geopolitical, scientific and corporate intrigue: investigating the future of the world's energy crisis and how it is currently tied to the fate of the deep ocean floor, which is intricately tied to our survival.

5 years after Anote’s Ark, Matthieu Rytz returns with this up-to-the-minute tale of geopolitical, scientific, and corporate intrigue that exposes the machinations of a secretive organization empowered to greenlight massive extraction of metals from the deep seafloor that are deemed essential to the electric battery revolution. Narrated by Jason Momoa, Deep Rising illuminates the vital relationship between the deep ocean and sustaining life on Earth. The documentary also follows mining startup The Metals Company, as it pursues funding, public favor, and permission from the International Seabed Authority to mine wide swaths of the Pacific Ocean floor. Rytz’s fly-on-the-wall access observes extraction companies as they co-opt scientific studies and deliver pitches to investors, proposing how the costs of industrializing our Earth’s last pristine environment can be justified to access metals they claim will benefit all of mankind. As oil conglomerates pivot investments to deep-ocean mining, Deep Rising examines humanity’s destructive pattern of extracting materials for profit and asks why we don’t choose, instead, to develop abundant resources to solve our energy problems.

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