X Trillion

• Duration: 68 minutes
• Director: Eleanor Church
• Country: United Kingdom
• Year: 2024
• Rating: (PG)

"We are about as far away from civilisation as one can get. Yet here, all around us, is evidence of our daily lives on land. Our choices. Our purchases. This is your old toothbrush, my empty shampoo bottle, the lid to his coffee cup."
– Michelle Byle, packaging designer ??

There are thought to be 500 times more pieces of microplastic in the sea than stars in our galaxy. And every tiny fragment of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has come from somewhere. Some things are so vast, complex and far away that they seem impossible to grasp, and harder to recount. But change is wrought through personal testimony, and heroes are made at sea. X Trillion takes us aboard with the all-women crew of eXXpedition North Pacific as they sail out of their comfort zone and into the unknown, becoming witnesses to a global problem and emerging transformed.

Read more about X Trillion here:
https://www.xtrillionfilm.com/about