Comments for Midway

Comment on Contact by Victoria Sloan Jordan

Victoria Sloan Jordan — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:28:33 +0000

Daphne, all the world’s oceans are polluted with plastic. This has been plaguing the albatross and many other species for many, many decades.

Comment on Contact by Victoria Sloan Jordan

Victoria Sloan Jordan — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:24:19 +0000

Dear Corey, it’s the Ocean not the Island that needs cleaning. The albatross feed only over open water. And, really, it’s our own addiction to plastic that has caused this, and it is everywhere, not just the Pacific Ocean and Midway.

Comment on Support by Juanita Aguerrebere

Juanita Aguerrebere — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:53:58 +0000

I am so moved by your work as former pacific archaeologist, I appreciate your methodological approach. One of the things that concerns me is the plastic and rubbish problem around the globe and here in Hawaii. I am curious about the marine clean up efforts from the horrific tsunami in Japan and solutions in third world countries for a profitable recycling programs. I have taught my kids to be responsible for their rubbish and they will be the first ones to run down the beach and thus save a marine life. I think the main thing in Hawaii and the states is if each single person is responsible for their own rubbish the world would be a cleaner safer place. I often wanted to film people who unconsciously throw out cigarette butts and other rubbish. What a great aspect to include in your film!

Comment on Film Trailer by Sofia

Sofia — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:52:03 +0000

thank you for showing us this reality…i almost died..but thank you <3 i deeply appreciate what you are doing with your talent. Good luck!

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Comment on MIDWAY – April 2012 – Miguel update by Cynth Gutschenritter

Cynth Gutschenritter — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:58:42 +0000

I understand how donations are helping you to film what is happening on this island, is any donation going towards helping to clean up? I’d be there with a rake if it were possible! Is anyone doing cleanup or just filming? I’ve worked with our local Keep North Platte & Lincoln County Beautiful organization on keeping litter and trash off roadways and getting people to recycle, but this video just breaks my heart. I have birds, ducks, geese, chickens, guineas, peacocks here on my little farm in Nebraska, and I can’t imagine the suffering these birds are having! :’(

Comment on Contact by Jen M

Jen M — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:25:54 +0000

I hope you will submit your full length film for consideration for entry into the HotDocs Festival in Toronto! This is something that will definitely garner widespread attention for this cause.

Comment on Contact by Corey

Corey — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:55:11 +0000

I completely understand that you are film makers that bring awareness to those of us who did not know about this, but I agree with others, when will there be a clean up project. It helps to make others aware however I think it just as if not more important that we get this island cleaned up. Will there be a project to do so. I would go in a minute. Please let me know so that I can contribute to the cleanup!!! We made the mess now we need to clean it up. I am certain that enough people would donate to do the job, it would be an excellent idea and I would love to be a part of it. I will donate and pay my own way if you make it a project!!!

Comment on Contact by Shone Thistle

Shone Thistle — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:50:00 +0000

The trailer alone is a window into what I can only imagine will be a stunningly sad and beautiful tale of cause and consequence.

Are there plans to screen the film in Canada, Calgary in particular? If not, is there anything that I can do to help make that happen?

Comment on Why Midway by Tom Smith

Tom Smith — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:07:15 +0000

So – The money that is donated goes to support the film and not to help cure the environmental issues that the film is about – is this correct?

Comment on Contact by acushla

acushla — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:01:51 +0000

Extraordinary!
This is powerful work.
THANK YOU!
What a horrific sight and so poignantly juxtaposed it with the unfathomable beauty and mystery of the natural world that we are mindlessly, needlessly destroying. And with it , as part of it, ourselves.
The clip on your blog page where you show each wave depositing yet curving line of plastic was devastating but it also a call to action.

With so much admiration for you all

Comment on The Journey by nicole

nicole — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:07:08 +0000

Hi team,
Please continue to do the work you are doing, so grateful to the team for this. I will do my work to spread more awareness. Such small things each human could do to prevent this from continuing, we all need to do our work, we share this place with others that have no voice…..

Comment on Film Trailer by Daniele

Daniele — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:20:49 +0000

A film about the plight of sea birds of the islands midway that eating our plastic waste die in a horrible way, dutiful look to realize the harm we do to all the inhabitants of our planet / ecosystem throwing waste into the environment and not attivandoci in a useful recycling!

Un film sulla condizione degli uccelli marini delle isole midway che mangiando i nostri rifiuti di plastica muoiono in un modo atroce, doveroso guardarlo per rendersi conto del male che facciamo a tutti gli abitanti di questo nostro pianeta/ecosistema buttando i rifiuti nell’ambiente e non attivandoci in un loro utile riciclo!!!

Comment on Contact by pabitra das

pabitra das — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:58:52 +0000

sir ,
nice work . good to see people like you who care about ecosystem and create awareness . liked the videos and waiting for you to reply . please allow me if i can do any help. will love to .

Comment on Film Trailer by Dr. Sridhar Kolluru

Dr. Sridhar Kolluru — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:42:02 +0000

The message is very direct through the trailer film! Oh! What to do? Really we (the humans) are not keeping the right things on right path! So let us try our level best to keep things in track started from the self, extended to family, colony, communities, villages, districts, states, countries and the whole world!

I wish we all would strive forward for the better future! I also wish the midway journey to keep up its work and do share! I wish to contribute to its work as a volunteer, if there is such possibility, especially in India to take forward the mission further!

Pleasant, Sridhar

Comment on Why Midway by Derrick Steed

Derrick Steed — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 09:15:29 +0000

Purely in the interests of accuracy and so as not to diminish the impact of the message you are attempting to convey to an ignorant and indifferent world (not I, I’m interested).

3rd paragraph, first sentence: “the first trans-atlantic cable” – in the middle of the Pacific ? That would have magnified the already not inconsiderable logistical and technological challenges would it not ?

I think you mean “the first trans-pacific cable”

Best regards,

Derrick Steed.

Comment on Contact by Jen Smalley

Jen Smalley — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 06:30:25 +0000

The truth always hurts..and if your strong enough inspires action…this piece was touching and truly another wake up call.
Something has to give or our children have a bleak future. I look around my house and its as though everything has blood on it so I can live the way I do..it’s so unbalanced, no wonder society is so unhappy our world is an outward mirror of an inner condition. How did we become so numb, so indifferent. My only thought is we have moved to far from the forest that grounded us.
Thank you.

Comment on Plastic Beach / Kickstarter Call to Action by Sheilan

Sheilan — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 01:18:10 +0000

God Bless all of you! Thank you for your efforts on behave of all of us. I am letting others know about you and your film.

Comment on MIDWAY – film trailer by Oceans of plastic trash….. | amarulasail

Oceans of plastic trash….. | amarulasail — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:20:28 +0000

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Comment on Film and Media by Mathieu Burelle

Mathieu Burelle — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 02:52:45 +0000

I am grateful to you. Thanks to your movie, I really felt how urgent it is to take action in our everyday life. To help people change, facts and numbers are useful, but images and poetry can be so much more powerful. Again: thank you.

Comment on Why Midway by Deb

Deb — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:37:42 +0000

The trailer images are incredibly powerful and disturbing; they alone tell so much of the story. I’ve looked at the blog and the rest of the site. I am wondering if you are including a very specific plan of action here — showing the footage without it will leave the viewers feeling even more despairing and guilty than they did beforehand. Saying that on a global scale we need to do a better job isn’t very helpful — lots of people are doing this in both personal ways, and in larger scale ways. But with an issue like this, clear, specific steps need to be outlined. What has to be done to clean up this specific island; what can address the continuing influx of waste deposits there. Clearly, the numbers of albatross on the island are huge — are there ornithologists weighing in on how it’s possible for such a tiny island to provide food for this many birds? Perhaps a lack of sufficient food for them is also contributing to the reason they are eating the plastic (and perhaps the plastic is preventing healthy food from growing there.) A complete picture of this issue is needed — the photos of the birds needs to be the starting point of an assessment and a thorough plan that can be used as a basis for recruiting agencies that can address the problem. Thanks for all you are doing.