Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
A Film by Angela Sun
Our July 1 chapter meeting will feature the award-winning documentary film Plastic Paradise. This 57-minute independent film was authored by journalist, sportscaster and television host Angela Sun. The film documents her personal journey of discovery to uncover the phenomenon called “the great Pacific garbage patch.”
The meeting starts at 7:30 PM at the San Bernardino County Museum 2024 Orange Tree Ln, Redlands.
In the film, Sun travels to remote Midway Island, ground zero for the mysterious phenomenon, which siphons plastics from three distant continents. Along the way she meets scientists, researchers, influencers, and volunteers who shed light on the effects of our rabid plastic consumption and learns the problem in more insidious than we could have ever imagined.
The film’s website <plasticparadisemovie.com> asks, “Every single piece of plastic that has ever been created since the 19th century is still somewhere on our planet. So if it never goes away, where does it go?” The Honolulu Pulse says, “Sun offers a fresh new voice for her generation and has made a film that will appeal to the masses.”
The Boston Globe states that Plastic Paradise “Offers some alarming information that might cause viewers to think twice about buying one-time-use water bottles.” According to the San Diego Asian Film Festival, it is “A film that moves the grassroots and has the audience thinking twice before grabbing a straw to go with a beverage.”
Released in 2013, Plastic Paradise won the Broadcast Award at the American Conservation Film Festival, the Environment Award at the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival, and the Isla Award at the Catalina Film Festival. In 2014 it received the Jury Award at the Wild and Scenic Film Festival. It has been an official selection at numerous other film festivals from Hawaii to Georgia and from Boston to Big Bear.
Plastic Paradise is Sun’s first full-length film. A graduate of UCLA, she was a pro/am surfing competitor in high school and college. She has had extensive experience as a television and Internet correspondent for sports, health and lifestyle. She was the first Asian-American female on-camera personality to appear on ESPN, Fox Sports, Tennis Channel, and Yahoo Sports.
Sun was nominated for an Emmy award for her work on First Look on LXTV. She is currently host for Yahoo Sports Minute, winner of the Webby and Bronze Telly awards. She is a travel writer, health and fitness advocate, and played a part in the 2008 movie Street Kings. She is the cover story in the June 2014 issue of the health and fitness magazine Experience Life. Sun has a website <angelasun.com> and a Facebook page.
