The End of the Line

Where Have All The Fish Gone?

A film by Rupert Murray Narrated by Ted Danson

Two Showings:

Friday February 12 at 7:00 pm

Saturday February 13 at 7:00 pm

Both showings at the State Theatre in Auburn

Auburn Placer Performing Arts Center www.livefromauburn.com

985 Lincoln Way

Tickets are $10 at the door and proceeds benefit

Save Auburn Ravine Salmon and Steelhead www.sarsas.org

and

Auburn Placer Performing Arts Center

Information about the film and the campaign is available at www.endoftheline.com

SARSAS has arranged to have the Auburn Mayor Bridget Powers introduce the film on Friday night and Placer County Supervisor Jim Holmes will do the honors on Saturday evening. On Sunday for Valentine's Day four fine restaurants in Auburn have promised to feature menu selections which will include seafood from the sustainable "best choice" list compiled by the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Marine Stewardship Council. We will be giving everyone who attends the film a copy of the sustainable seafood pocket guide. http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/content/media/MBA_SeafoodWatch_WestCoastGuide.pdf

Participating Auburn restaurants are…

Monkey Cat 805 Lincoln Way 530-888-8492

Bootleggers 210 Washington 889-2229

Carpe Vino 1568 Lincoln Way 530-823-0320

Latitudes 130 Maple Street #200 885-9535

Debuting at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and playing in hundreds of cinemas, aquariums, and universities across the US and the United Kingdom, Rupert Murray’s THE END OF THE LINE is nothing short of the inconvenient truth about the devastating effect of over fishing on the world’s ecosystems. The first major documentary to reveal the extent of the crisis facing today's oceans, THE END OF THE LINE challenges us to imagine a world without fish…period.

The New York Times calls it “vital”, “well-researched,” and “evenhanded ”: a film “that subverts our ancient faith in the ocean as an inexhaustible resource, offering a persuasive case that the major species of edible fish are headed for extinction.”

Filmed over two years, the documentary follows the indefatigable investigative reporter Charles Clover as he confronts the politicians and celebrity restaurateurs who exhibit little regard for the damage their policies—and their menus—are doing to the oceans. Taking us from the cod-depleted shores of the Atlantic to the Straits of Gibraltar and the coasts of Senegal, and on to the Tokyo fish market, THE END OF THE LINE sounds a powerful wake-up call to the world: If we continue fishing as we are now, we will see the end of most seafood by 2048.

The Campaign

A powerful and convincing call to action, THE END OF THE LINE, the film has three messages for consumers, citizens and companies:

Ask before you buy: Only eat sustainable seafood.

Tell politicians: Respect the science; cut the fishing fleet.

Join the campaign: Fight for marine protected areas and responsible fishing.

This winter, THE END OF THE LINE also launches an unprecedented FISH ‘n’ FLICKS restaurant campaign across The United States: a four-city tour of the film in screenings hosted by twelve of America’s most renowned and sustainability-conscious chefs.

Rupert Murray, Director: Rupert Murray directed and edited UNKNOWN WHITE MALE (2005), which was nominated for awards at the Directors Guild of America Awards, the Grierson Awards and the British Independent Film Awards. He has recently directed a feature length documentary OLLY AND SUZY: Two of a Mind, a film about two artists who paint dangerous predators in the wild.

Charles Clover, Author, The End of the Line: Charles Clover’s book, The End of the Line, has been described as the definitive book on over-fishing, winning the Guild of Food Writers' Derek Cooper Award for investigative food writing, an Andre Simon award for food writing, and the Zoological Society of London's BIOSIS award for communicating zoology. Clover writes a weekly column in the Sunday Times and was Environment Editor of The Daily Telegraph, based in London, from 1988-2008.