Racing Extinction
Documentary & Discussion
Tuesday, 01 Mar 2016 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Racing Extinction is the latest documentary from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Louie Psihoyos. The film, which aired in December on the Discovery Channel, takes up the man-made causes behind what biologists call the sixth mass extinction - the spate of plant and animal losses that threatens to eradicate up to half of all living species on Earth within this century. Psyihoyos is known for using innovative, high-tech gadgets to covertly document used the tragic slaughter of dolphins in Japan for his film The Cove. In Racing Extinction he works with activists, scientists, nature photographers and cutting-edge inventors to reveal the black-market trade in endangered species. Part of the University Symposium on SustainabilityThe film's innovative, one-of-a-kind technology, includes an underwater camera with an 80-megapixel sensor and a custom-fitted glass dome that produces no color aberrations; an infrared camera fitted with a color filter that brings into stark relief the sources of carbon dioxide in our environment; and a Tesla Model S, retrofitted with a 5,000-lumen video projector mounted on a retractable steel frame.
Click here to watch the trailer | racingextinction.com
Louie Psihoyos is widely regarded as one of the world's most prominent still photographers. He has circled the globe for National Geographic and shooting hundreds of covers for other magazines including Fortune Magazine, Smithsonian, Discover, GEO, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and Rock and Ice. He is also the founder and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS), a non-profit organization that creates film, photography and media, inspiring people to save the oceans.
New Documentary Racing Extinction Explores How Humanity Is Killing the World
Wired Magazine, 11.29.15
Cosponsored By:
- National Affairs
- Office of Sustainability
- Sustainapalooza
- The Green Umbrella
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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