Glimmerglass Film Days and the Cooperstown Graduate Program present a free screening of WINDSHIPPED followed by a Q&A with Director Jon Bowermaster. The event will be held at SUNY Oneonta Hodgdon IRC Lecture Hall #5.

Jon Bowermaster and Oceans 8 Films present “WindShipped,” (40 min.), the story of the “Schooner Apollonia,” and the dream of a quixotic captain, Sam Merrett, to restart cargo delivery up and down the Hudson River by sail, sans fossil fuels.

JON BOWERMASTER is a writer, filmmaker, and adventurer. He is the director of Windshipped and more than 30 other documentaries, including ‘Dear President Obama,’ ‘Antarctica, on the Edge,’ ‘After the Spill’ and ‘Ghost Fleet.’ A six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council, he is one of the Society’s ‘Ocean Heroes.’ His first assignment for National Geographic Magazine was documenting a 3,741 mile crossing of Antarctica by dogsled. Jon has written eleven books and produced/directed more than thirty documentary films. His National Geographic-sponsored Oceans 8 project took him and his teams around the world by sea kayak over the course of ten years (1999-2008), bringing back stories from the Aleutian Islands to French Polynesia, Gabon to Tasmania, and more, reporting on how the planet’s one ocean and its various coastlines are faring in today’s busy world. Jon is a Visiting Lecturer at Bard College, in the Environment and Urban Studies Department and hosts a weekly radio show/podcast, ‘The Green Radio Hour with Jon Bowermaster.’

This screening is part of the Glimmerglass Film Days. This event is supported by the college senate committee on public events and sponsored by the SUNY Oneonta Alumni Association with Financial Support from the Fund for Oneonta.

Glimmerglass Film Days, a program of Otsego 2000, will mark its tenth season November 10-14 in Cooperstown. Select films also will be available to stream November 18-20. The film festival explores humanity’s complex relationship with the natural world through exceptional independent films, filmmaker talks, art, books, and partnerships with local nonprofits and businesses www.glimmerglassfilmdays.org