Blue Carbon

Told through the eyes of Grammy-nominated music producer, DJ and marine toxicologist, Jayda Guy, accompanied by a score from the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and featuring Seu Jorge, Blue Carbon is an environmental documentary that brings together music and science to uncover why listening to nature, and to each other, is key for averting climate catastrophe.

Filmed in the USA, Senegal, Vietnam, France, Colombia and Brazil, the documentary explores the relatively newly-discovered potential of oceans to absorb much more carbon from the atmosphere than even tropical rainforests. This “Blue Carbon” as scientists are now calling it, can be found in salt-marshes, sea-grasses and mangroves, and are becoming increasingly attractive investments for big corporations looking to offset their emissions through carbon credit schemes. This documentary urges us to take stock of nature’s true value by listening to and learning from the communities on the front lines of climate change.

Punctuated with stunning encounters with the natural world – such as the Florida manatee, humpback whales and the American crocodile – and uncovering the unlikely, local communities at the heart of conservation, the film provides a much-needed ray of hope in troubling times. (Dir. by Nicolas Brown, 2023, USA/UK/Germany/France, 84 mins., Not Rated)

This is a Community Rental by Tucson Verde Rotary Club.