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Thank you very much for your participation at the 2024 UNICA KOREA International Film Festival.

Free to Swim
Director. Okeremute Ovuorho
Country. nigeriaYear of production. 2022Running time. 1min

Plastic pollution has become one of the most urgent environmental

issues we are facing presently. This film is about a discus fish and her

fry. They lived happily for a long time until giant plastic materials where

introduced into their environment, they had to struggle to search for food

and space. One day, in her search for food for her little fry, the discus

fish got stuck in one of the plastic containers, she tried so hard but

couldn't get out. Unfortunately, she died from suffocation weeks later. In

an attempt to escape the same tragedy, the fry sadly fell into the same

situation. Entanglement in plastic debris is responsible for the deaths of

many aquatic organisms. It is estimated that about 1.1 to 8.8 million

metric tons of plastic waste enters the world ocean from coastal

communities every year.

Director

Okeremute Ovuorho
Okeremute Ovuorho is an environmental activist, founder of Blue Ribbon, an animator, and a media activist. He has worked with various media organizations, including the BBC.

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