Viewing: September 03,2025
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Director: Ignacio Walker, Denis Arqueros
Cast: Sofia and Jonathan Green
Join us Wednesday, September 3rd at 7:00 p.m. as we kick-off our Sustainability Film Series with a touching documentary about a marine biologist who finds something greater than animal life in the deepest ocean!
Admission is FREE and open to the public – Tickets are required
This event will include a pre-show presentation with OHIO Biological Science professor Dr. Molly R. Morris
About the film
This is an inspiring feature documentary film about how an absent father reunites with his daughter thanks to their passion to save the biggest shark in the world, the whale shark. The story takes place in the remote Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean, where Sofia and Jonathan must face their past in order reconnect a lost connection, all while trying to find and study the biggest shark in the world under very dangerous conditions. This is a film aimed for a wide audience, about woman empowerment, family relationships and ocean conservation, with spectacular views of the underwater world that hosts the world’s most gigantic shark.
About the speaker
Dr. Molly R. Morris, PhD – Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio University
“My research interests are in sexual selection, variation in female mate preferences, and the evolution of alternative reproductive strategies. In my laboratory, we are interested in the evolutionary processes that both constrain and drive biological diversity. We examine the evolution of diversity both within and across species of Xiphophorus fishes. These small live bearing fish, native to freshwater streams in Mexico, present a diversity of behaviors and morphologies that are ideal for examining the evolution of behavioral plasticity, female mate preferences, nutritional programming, maternal effects, and the evolution of alternative reproductive strategies. We observe behavior in the field as well as in the laboratory, incorporating molecular techniques to conduct paternity analyses and examine gene expression profiles. We are also very interested in the conservation of this group of fishes, and study how they respond to exposure to pollutants and global climate change.”
Check out the rest of our line-up of films in the Sustainability Film Series
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Carter Sickels is the author of the novel The Prettiest Star, winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Fiction, the Southern Book Prize, and the Weatherford Award, and selected as a Kirkus Best Book of 2020 and a Best LGBT Book by O Magazine. His debut novel The Evening Hour was adapted into a feature film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020. His writing has appeared in publications includingThe Kenyon Review, The Atlantic, Oxford American, Poets & Writers, BuzzFeed, and Guernica. Carter is an assistant professor of creative writing at North Carolina State University.
