The End of the Line

Sound the global alarm. Scientists predict that if we continue fishing at the current rate, the planet will run out of seafood by 2048 with catastrophic consequences. Based on the book by Charles Clover, The End of the Line explores the devastating effect that overfishing is having on fish stocks and the health of our oceans.With Clover as his guide, Sundance veteran Rupert Murray (Unknown White Male) crisscrosses the globe, examining what is causing the dilemma and what can be done to solve it. Industrial fishing began in the 1950s. High-tech fisheries now trawl the oceans with nets the size of football fields. Species cannot survive at the rate they are being removed from the sea. Add in cofactors of decades of bad science, corporate greed, small-minded governments, and escalating consumer demand, and we’re left with a crisis of epic proportions. Ninety percent of the big fish in our oceans are now gone.Murray interweaves glorious footage from both underwater and above with shocking scientific testimony to paint a vivid and alarming profile of the state of the sea. The ultimate power of The End of the Line is that it moves beyond doomsday rhetoric to proffer real solutions. Chillingly topical, The End of the Line drives home the message: the clock is ticking, and the time to act is now.
CAST

Rupert Murray - Rupert Murray directed and edited Unknown White Male, which premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and was short-listed for the Oscars and nominated for several other awards. Unknown White Male featured Murray's childhood friend Doug Bruce, who suffered retrograde amnesia. Murray's most recent documentary, Olly and Suzi: Two of a Mind, is the story of two artists who paint predators in the wild.

Screenings:

Mon. Jan 19 12:15 p.m. - ENDOF194D Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City
Tue. Jan 20 11:30 a.m. - ENDOF20LD Library Center Theatre, Park City
Wed. Jan 21 9:00 p.m. - ENDOF21SN Screening Room, Sundance Resort
Thu. Jan 22 5:30 p.m. - ENDOF223E Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
Fri. Jan 23 6:45 p.m. - ENDOF23BE Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC