DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week.
Disney wants to wish everyone a happy Earth Day with the release today of its second nature documentary to be released on this date, one year after 2009’s Earth. For this examination of our planet’s seas, Disney brought in Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud, the co-directors of one of the most acclaimed nature documentaries of the last decade, Winged Migration. Perrin also produced the excellent nature film Microcosmos in the mid-1990s. Disney gave the pair a staggering documentary budget of over $60 million, and set them loose to explore the surfaces, depths, and coastal areas of oceans all over the world. The facility these two have with capturing the natural world on camera was mesmerizing in Winged Migration, and this promises similar visual poetry in the water rather than the air.
View the trailer.
Now playing at a number of theaters throughout the area.
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While on the subject of the seas, the Surfrider Foundation is sponsoring a water-based documentary premiere in D.C. this week as well. Surfrider is an international foundation dedicated to the preservation of the world’s oceans and beaches, and their D.C. chapter is active in preservation efforts for the Potomac, Anacostia, and Chesapeake, as well as issues related to Maryland and Delaware’s Atlantic beaches. The film screening they’re sponsoring (the proceeds of which benefit that D.C. chapter) is Interference, a documentary/travelogue following a group of surf kayakers as they travel through five countries on four continents over the course of two years, looking for a little adventure on the road between waves.
View the trailer.
Monday at 8 p.m. at the Avalon. $10, tickets available online through the Surfrider Foundation.
