Special screening of award-winning LA Times documentary OUT OF PLAIN SIGHT

Join the Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences and the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital (DCEFF) for a special screening and Q&A discussion of the award-winning documentary film, Out of Plain Sight.

"Haunting, enraging, and a vital addition to environmental storytelling."

-- Scott Z. Burns, producer of An Inconvenient Truth

From the Los Angeles Times and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Rosanna Xia, Out of Plain Sight is a cinematic exposé of an environmental disaster lurking just off the coast of Southern California.

Not far from Catalina Island, aboard one of the most-advanced research ships in the world, David Valentine discovered a corroded barrel on the seafloor that gave him chills. The full environmental horror sharpens into greater clarity once he calls Xia, who pieces together a shocking revelation: In the years after World War II, as many as half a million barrels of toxic waste had been quietly dumped into the ocean – and the consequences continue to haunt the world today.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Los Angeles Times environmental reporter Rosanna Xia (director, producer) will moderate a post-screening discussion with the following scientists featured in the film:

Dr. David Valentine (UC Santa Barbara)

Dr. Alissa Deming (Pacific Marine Mammal Center)

Dr. Eunha Hoh (San Diego State University)

Dr. Lihini Aluwihare (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)