‘Chasing Coral’ screening at Bertha DocHouse, London from 14 July
Bertha DocHouse, the UK’s first cinema dedicated solely to documentary, will be screening acclaimed film Chasing Coral from director Jeff Orlowski from Friday 14 July. A spiritual sequel to Chasing Ice, Orlowski’s previous film which chronicled the melting of the polar ice caps, Chasing Coral charts the equally devastating bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef.
With the help of specialist divers, photographers and scientists, the film is both an investigation into why coral reefs are vanishing at an unprecedented rate and an activist call to arms, as Orlowski and team race against time to document the bleaching events silently raging underwater.
Netflix have acquired worldwide rights to the film with a release planned for later this year and Lisa Nishimura, Netflix’s VP of Original Documentaries, called it ” a stunning cinematic achievement.”
More information about the film, including a trailer, can be found here.
Winner of the U.S. Documentary Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Chasing Coral is playing exclusively on the big screen at Bertha DocHouse, based at Curzon Bloomsbury in London.
The first Friday screening is now on sale, with further daily screenings to follow. See www.dochouse.org.
