All Too Clear Screening

All Too  Clear uses cutting-edge underwater drones to explore how quadrillions of  tiny invasive mussels are re-engineering the ecosystem of North  America’s Great Lakes at a scale not seen since the glaciers. The  mussels are trapping nutrients, the building blocks of life, on the lake  bottom. Without nutrients, organisms of all kinds – from the tiniest  plankton to the largest fish – are vanishing, creating vast biological  deserts. The scientific community is divided into those racing to find a  way to control the invaders, and those who see an ironic silver-lining  in the new world created by the mussels – a once-in-a-lifetime chance to  restore an ancient and forgotten native ecosystem.

The  mussels have also had an extraordinary side effect: they’ve made the  lakes clearer than they’ve ever been before. We’ve harnessed this  clarity to film never-before-seen visuals: from dazzling shallow water  worlds that look more like the Caribbean than…