Out of Plain Sight

BAY AREA PREMIERE, presented with The Redford Center

Join L.A. Times environmental journalist Rosanna Xia and the film team for a Q&A with The Redford Center after this special screening!

“Haunting, enraging, and a vital addition to environmental storytelling.” – Scott Z. Burns, producer of An Inconvenient Truth

From the Los Angeles Times and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Rosanna Xia, Out of Plain Sight is a cinematic exposé of an environmental disaster lurking just off the coast of Southern California.

Not far from Catalina Island, aboard one of the most-advanced research ships in the world, David Valentine discovered a corroded barrel on the seafloor that gave him chills. The full environmental horror sharpens into greater clarity once he calls Xia, who pieces together a shocking revelation: In the years after World War II, as many as half a million barrels of toxic waste had been quietly dumped into the ocean – and the consequences continue to haunt the world today.

ABOUT THE REDFORD CENTER: Co-founded in 2005 by activists and filmmakers Robert Redford and James Redford, The Redford Center is a nonprofit that advances environmental solutions through the power of stories that move.