Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Environmental Award Film
FISH & MEN
USA, 2019, 85 min
Directors: Darby Duffin, Adam Jones
Producers: Darby Duffin, Adam Jones, Heidi Zimmerman
Editor: Heidi Zimmerman
Cinematographers: Derek McKane, Jonathan Millman
Do you relish every morsel of your exquisitely prepared, succulent seafood dinner? Of course you do. But did you know that 91% of our fish is imported and the U.S. is flooded with six billion tons of imported seafood. Consumers across America eat blissfully, unaware of where their seafood is from or knowing the dire consequences that a demand for five species of fish sourced from distant oceans brings to our shores. Fish & Men exposes the high cost of cheap fish in the modern seafood economy and the forces threatening local fishing communities and public health by revealing how our choices as consumers drive the global seafood trade.
Darby Duffin’s company On a Mission Media produces original short and long-form digital content. He is currently working on multiple projects, including producing a feature narrative and directing his second feature documentary. Adam Jones’s first job out of college was as a production assistant on a TV commercial campaign directed by Albert Maysles. He later began directing commercials. Fish & Men is his first feature.
Award by Sam Sabin.
Q/A with Directors Darby Duffin and Adam Jones, moderated by Bonnie Brady, Director of the Long Island Commercial Fishing Association.