Directed by Ian Cheney / Bermuda, Bahamas, United States / 2017 / 30 minutes

The film chronicles a week-long journey through the remote waters of the Sargasso Sea. After years of hearing about the famous “garbage patches” in the ocean gyres, the crew is astonished to find that these patches are a myth: the waters stretching to the horizon are clear blue, with no garbage island in sight. However, as the crew filters the water and examines its composition, an even more disturbing reality emerges: a haze of microplastics is infiltrating the world’s oceans, with trillions of nearly invisible plastic fragments entering the marine food chain. You can clean up a garbage patch, but how do you stop a haze?