Ocean Pollution

Pulp Poo and Perfection - Surfing Movie Review

Pulp Poo and Perfection, directed by Chilean Angel Marin and written by Californian turned Chileno, Joshua Berry, is great investigative filmmaking. The short-length film documents - as the title suggests - a proposed sewage plant in a coastal Chilean town that would dump sewage one half mile off shore at Pichilemu, and a currently operating pulp and paper pant dumping bleach into a river leading out to the sea. Berry, in addition to being a filmmaker, is the Chile Program Director for the Save the Waves Coalition. Featuring interviews wth local opposition (and Shane Dorian for good measure) as well as the fishermen equally impacted, Pulp Poo and Perfection documents what can happen to amazing surf breaks when the stakeholders care, and rise up against the steamroller of corporate construction/destruction. Says Berry: “One of the highlights was being present for a protest where the protesters formed a human pipeline along the path of the proposed pipeline.” Berry explains that the pipeline project was halted and a proper water treatment in the works, but the pulp mill remains a problem. We’ll certainly be following Berry and his team in Chile as they turn their lens towards other perfect breaks on the brink of being destroyed.

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