Sustainble Hackney's 'Films For Action' series is back for the autumn with A Plastic Ocean - a gripping adventure documentary that takes you on a journey across the ocean, exploring the harsh reality of the unimaginable damage caused by humans and the solutions.

Described by David Attenborough as “one of the most important films of our time”.

Daytime event details:

• 10 am - 2.30 pm Creative single-use-plastic activities such as; DIY vertical garden salad planters, talks, zero waste market and an art installation. This will run throughout the afternoon in partnership with Plastic Free Hackney. More details about this to follow shortly!

Evening Film screening:

• 7 pm Doors open: bar, snacks, and info stalls
• 7:30 pm Film starts (1hr 45)
• 9:20 pm Panel discussion & Q&A with local groups and guest speakers, identifying local solutions.

Panel speakers:

• Bettina Maidment - Founder of Plastic Free Hackney
• Julian Kirby - Independent researcher, & plastics pollution campaigner @ Friends of the Earth
• Tash Rutherford - Plastic Oceans Foundation

- more speakers TBC shortly...

Networking/social drinks;

• 9:45 pm - 11 pm Bar serving alcohol, soft drinks and snacks. All food and drinks are sourced as locally and sustainably as possible. This is a Hackney Green Drinks event.

The Film

A PLASTIC OCEAN begins when journalist Craig Leeson, searching for the elusive blue whale, discovers plastic waste in what should be pristine ocean. In this adventure documentary, Craig teams up with free diver Tanya Streeter and an international team of scientists and researchers, and they travel to twenty locations around the world over the next four years to explore the fragile state of our oceans, uncover alarming truths about plastic pollution, and reveal working solutions that can be put into immediate effect. This film documents the newest science, proving how plastics, once they enter the oceans, break up into small particulates that enter the food chain.