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The Woods Hole Film Festival, which runs for eights days from July 29-August 5, presents eight feature length and short documentaries and two panel discussions on science as part of its "Bringing Science to the Screen" program, out of the 132 film line-up. For tickets and a complete listing of this year's films visit www.woodsholefilmfestival.org<http://www.woodsholefilmfestival.org> or visit us on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/woodsholefilmfestival/>.

Woods Hole Film Festival - FESTIVAL 2017: JULY 29<http://www.woodsholefilmfestival.org/>
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Annual event based in Cape Cod, screening work from New England-based independent filmmakers. History, general information, entry details, workshops, past winners ...



Interestingly, four films are about the planet Mars. THE MARS GENERATION (July 30, 5:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium) looks at what it would take to reach the planet Mars from the point of view of several aspiring teenage astronauts who participated in the NASA Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. NASA Astronaut Sunita Williams, who appears in the film, will be part of a Q&A after. The narrative feature SEAT 25 (August 3, 7:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium) and the short narrative 11:11 (August 4, 5:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station) imagine what that trip to Mars might actually look like. BRAVE NEW JERSEY (July 31, 9:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium) suggests what might have happened when the citizens of a small town in New Jersey heard that fateful broadcast on what they consider to be their last night on Earth.

Marine biology also plays a role. The festival kicks off with CHASING CORAL (July 29, 2:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium), Jeff Orlowski’s documentary feature about a team of divers, photographers, and scientists who set out on an ocean voyage with the same adventurous spirit and curiosity that inspired the Emmy Award-winning CHASING ICE to discover why coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will participate in the post-film discussion. Dr. Sylvia Earle narrates SAVING SEA TURTLES: PREVENTING EXTINCTION (August 3, 5:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium), which illustrates the threat to the world's most critically endangered sea turtle species by focusing on the record-breaking 1200 Kemp's Ridley sea turtles stranded on Cape Cod in 2014. PATAGONIA AZUL: THE INTERCONNECTION OF LIFE features a group of scientists, including several from WHOI, searching for Blue Whales in Patagonia, Chile. The scientists also reflect on their role in and responsibility towards conservation and the survival of other similar animals.

TICK DAYS (August 2, 6:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station) profiles county entomologist Larry Dapsis, who’s at the tick bite's epidemic’s ground zero on Cape Cod.

The panel discussions include "Science and Storytelling" featuring STAR TREK BEYOND writer Doug Jung, HEROES executive producer and writer Nora Kay Foster, Filmmaker-in-Residence and former Nova Science Now producer Josh Seftel, THE MARS GENERATION director Michael Barnett, and several scientists from WHOI, and “The Next Storytelling Frontier: Accessing New Realities with Emerging Technologies,” led by MIT Open Documentary Lab Director Sarah Wolozin.
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