​It’s almost here!

On Friday, May 29th at 2:30 in the afternoon we will be celebrating the excellent entries from Miami Beach High students to the So Flo Floods competition.

We are very excited to announce several “stars” from the film will be available for the Q&A after the screening of the new 56-minute version:

• Professor Harold Wanless – University of Miami’s foremost scientist on sea level rise
• Professor Richard Weisskoff – University of Miami’s environmental economist and researcher
• Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch – South Florida Water Management District Governing Board Member and activist
• Steve and Bobbie Richards – Producer/Director

We are also excited to have these luminaries as well:

• Dr. Maria Rodriguez – Principal of Miami Beach Senior High
• Wendy Guzman – AP Biology teacher and TheoEco liaison for Beach High
• Beulah “Boots” Richards – Executive Pass Coordinator for the Council for Educational Change
• Jay Abramowitz – Award sponsor/presenter, Miami Beach businessman and waterfront homeowner

And most of all, our entrants!

By Steve Richards

​We are just back from Jubal Studio in Kathmandu where we edited our original 73-minute version of So FLo FLoods to a snappier 56-minute version to satisfy the desires of museums, schools, and community centers for a quicker rendering.

While it seemed impossible to cut a quarter of the film it turns out that we like it just fine – and if it enables more people to see it, we’re obviously good with that. The film’s treatment of South Florida’s flooding past, present, and future, are all intact as are the interviews (though trimmed a bit) with Professors Wanless and Weisskoff from the University of Miami, Paul George from HistoryMiami, Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch from the SFWMD, author Robert Mykle, and the others.

We are currently scheduling new screenings of the film for Spring and Summer and are set to premiere the new version on April 3rd on Miami Beach at the So FLo FLoods Competition Awards Ceremony at Miami Beach Senior High. Be on the lookout for more information as we get closer to the event.

​To see the film’s updated trailer just click on the following link: https://vimeo.com/248031362. You can keep up with all we are doing at SoFloFloods.com and on our facebook page: @SoFloFloods.

​So FLo FLoods and the Bahamian Relief Screenings taking place throughout South Florida have many Anglican connections as mentioned in our last blog: About the Episcopal Church, the Anglican Communion, and the Bahamas. Since then we’ve had Bahamians who have asked if they could show the film to their family in the Bahamas. We've said, "Yes, of course!" and provided a link to the film, which we are very happy to do for any that want to see it in the Bahamas.

By Steve Richards

​Most documentaries – most films for that matter – have a difficult time seeing the light of day. Few crack the awareness of most audiences. Even big budget films with large scale theatrical releases and marketing budgets have a difficult time cracking the awareness of most people.
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Little documentaries like So FLo FLoods have an exceedingly difficult time getting anywhere. Most try the film festival route and hope they have enough to catch the eye of a distributor, who if they decide to distribute a film basically control the film from that point onward.

TheoEco is reaching out to high school students in the So FLo FLoods locales to create essays, artworks, exhibits, and explorations of topics in the film related to art, economics, environmental activism, history, STEM, and writing...​