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2010 Press Release
LIFF Dedicated to Exploring Issues Facing the LBI Community
Long Beach Island, New Jersey
May 20, 2010
The Lighthouse International Film Festival, to be held this year on June 4-6 at four venues on Long Beach Island, is dedicated to exploring issues facing the LBI community, such as the challenges of balancing environmental concerns with the serious challenges facing our fishing industry. Last year, we began that discussion with "The End of the Line", a passionate plea to protect our oceans against overfishing.
This year we are proud to continue that discussion with two films that take a look at how fishermen across the country are struggling to make ends meet in light of new fishing regulations. A Long Haul is a Feature Documentary Film directed by Nathaniel Kramer depicting the struggles of a charter boat captain whose seasonal summer business has fallen prey to a bad economy, high fuel prices, loss of customers and depleted fish populations. Forced to moonlight on a broken down commercial fishing trawler, he sets sail for a trip to net squid alongside his loyal first mate to try to salvage his career as a fisherman.
Crab Feast or Famine is a 23 minute Short Film which shows the economic hardships facing Virginia watermen and their families. For 400 years, generations of watermen have fished and crabbed the Chesapeake Bay. Recently, scientists have concluded that the crab population has dropped by 70% in the last 10 years, prompting Virginia and Maryland to impose stricter regulations reducing the crabbing harvest by 34%. These are important issues for the fishing community of our area.
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