Summerhays Films and partners, The Ocean Project, and The Baum Foundation will collaborate to deliver this ten-year multi-faceted program—America’s Ocean Challenge. The program will bring about increased awareness of the importance, value, and vulnerability of our nation’s ocean ecosystems, and promote the concept that every individual has a stake in their conservation.

Over the next ten years Summerhays Films and its partners will build on its earlier successes of combining entertainment and education to inspire and motivate the public and powerful constituencies toward better stewardship of our oceans. The programs developed for America’s Ocean Challenge will constitute one of the most comprehensive awareness programs of this type ever to be created in the United States.

Summerhays Films will create and deliver these programs for distribution through multiple channels including IMAX/large format theaters as well as The Ocean Project’s growing stable of national and international partner institutions, with a goal of reaching more than 140 million people worldwide over a ten-year period.

The first step in the program includes all early-stage planning. Summerhays Films will deliver plans for a phased program that will inspire the American public to devote the necessary time, energy, and resources to properly nurture this vast ocean trust. Summerhays Films will complete the program plan over a one-year period.