Cristina Mittermeier Honored as 2020 “Ocean Champion” at Waves to Recovery: International Ocean Film Festival 2020 Virtual Fall Benefit
Thursday, December 10 at 6pm (PST)
Online auction begins December 4
www.intloceanfilmfest.org
3 December 2020 - San Francisco, CA. It seems fitting that Cristina Mittermeier who PBS’ Nova hailed for “changing the world one photograph at a time” should be the recipient of this year’s “Ocean Champion Award” from the San Francisco-based International Ocean Film Festival (www.intloceanfilmfest.org) whose motto is, “Saving the world’s oceans, one film at time.” Co-founder and Managing Director of SeaLegacy, co-founder of Only One and Executive Producer of Echoes in the Arctic, Mittemeierhas traveled to more than 100 countries and worked in remote corners of the planet with Indigenous groups to document the delicate balance between human cultures and biodiverse ecosystems. The first woman photographer to reach 1 million followers on Instagram will be honored on Thursday, December 10 at 6pm (PST) at the Waves to Recovery virtual benefit.
