Turtle: The Incredible Journey
Visually resplendent.
Turtle: The Incredible Journey
Born on a beach in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream up towards the Arctic and ultimately swims around the entire North Atlantic across to Africa and back to the beach where she was born. But the odds are stacked against her; just one in ten thousand turtles survive the journey.
She faces many hazards, her siblings are lost in the doldrums of the Sargasso Sea, she comes face to face
with creatures of the deep and nearly dies at the hands of fishermen. She travels up north but she drifts from her life current, the Gulf Stream, into dangerously cold waters.
When she finally reaches the Azores on the other side of the Atlantic, she sees the greatest celebration of life on the Earth as sperm whale and baitballs explode from the water. But deep and powerful changes are happening in the oceans – the fish are disappearing, sea levels are rising, the turtle’s birthing beach could be washed away and bring a way of life to an end.
Then her calling comes, she must return to her beach. When she finally reaches the shores of Florida, 25
years will have passed!
Under a million stars, she crawls out of the sea to lay her own eggs and keeps the Turtles Journey alive.
TURTLE: THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY has all the elements of a great epic: suspense, adventure, despair and hope.
With the Song “Thank You Stars” by Katie Melua.
“Visually resplendent.” (Justin Chang, Variety)
She faces many hazards, her siblings are lost in the doldrums of the Sargasso Sea, she comes face to face
with creatures of the deep and nearly dies at the hands of fishermen. She travels up north but she drifts from her life current, the Gulf Stream, into dangerously cold waters.
When she finally reaches the Azores on the other side of the Atlantic, she sees the greatest celebration of life on the Earth as sperm whale and baitballs explode from the water. But deep and powerful changes are happening in the oceans – the fish are disappearing, sea levels are rising, the turtle’s birthing beach could be washed away and bring a way of life to an end.
Then her calling comes, she must return to her beach. When she finally reaches the shores of Florida, 25
years will have passed!
Under a million stars, she crawls out of the sea to lay her own eggs and keeps the Turtles Journey alive.
TURTLE: THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY has all the elements of a great epic: suspense, adventure, despair and hope.
With the Song “Thank You Stars” by Katie Melua.
“Visually resplendent.” (Justin Chang, Variety)
Genre
Documentary,
Nature
Web Site
Runtime
81
Language
English
Director
Nick Stringer
Cast
Miranda Richardson
FEATURED REVIEW
Mark Holcomb, Village Voice
A throwback to the blithely anthropomorphic Disney wildlife docs of yore, only devoid of their endearing cornball humor, TV-nature-show vet Nick Stringer’s Turtle: The Incredible Journey chronicles the birth and early life of a loggerhead turtle in kid-friendly fashion. It’s a compelling story ...
Played at
Lumiere Music Hall 6.24.11 - 6.30.11
Monica Film Center 7.02.11 - 7.10.11
Claremont 5 7.09.11 - 7.17.11
Playhouse 7 7.09.11 - 7.17.11
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