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Charles Clover
Charles Clover is a journalist and author, with a weekly column about environmental matters in the Sunday Times.He was Environment Editor of The Daily Telegraph, based in London, from 1988-2008 and conceived the Telegraph Earth website and developed it with a small, talented team of other journalists.
He has been elected national journalist of the year by the British Environment and Media Awards three times, in 1989, 1994 and 1996.
He was co-author with the Prince of Wales of Highgrove: Portrait of an Estate, (1993) a best-selling study of Prince Charles's conversion to organic farming and gardening and a clarion call for sustainable farming.
His book The End of the Line: how over-fishing is changing the world and what we eat (Ebury 2004), has been described as the definitive book on over-fishing.
It won the Guild of Food Writers' Derek Cooper Award for investigative food writing, an Andre Simon award for food writing and the Zoological Society of London's BIOSIS award for communicating zoology.
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PUMA.Creative Announces “The End of the Line” as Winner of Inaugural PUMA.Creative Impact Award for Documentary Film
Today PUMA.Creative and the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation announced “The End of the Line” as the winner of the inaugural PUMA.Creative Impact Award. This annual €50,000 award, a first of its kind in the industry, has been launched to identify and honor the documentary film that has made the most significant positive impact on society. “Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country” was unexpectedly awarded a Special Commendation for its social impact and a €25,000 prize. Commenting on the PUMA.Creative Impact Award winner, Jochen Zeitz, CEO Sport & Lifestyle Group and CSO of PPR and Chairman of the Board of PUMA, said, “I would like to congratulate “The End of the Line” on becoming the first winner of the PUMA.Creative Impact Award. At PUMA, we believe that corporations have a responsibility and opportunity to contribute to a better world for generations to come. Documentary film is such an influential medium because it allows the public to emotionally connect with the subject matter. We hope that with the PUMA.Creative Impact award we can help to inspire positive change in the world.” The shortlist of five finalists, derived from 70 submitted documentaries also includes “The Age of Stupid“, “The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court“ and “Trouble the Water“ and were judged by an elite jury: Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, Morgan Spurlock, Orlando Bagwell, Emmanuel Jal, and Loretta Minghella OBE. The winning documentary, “The End of the Line“, was the first major feature documentary film revealing the impact of overfishing on the world’s oceans and has been widely acclaimed as a wake-up call. Filmed over two years, following investigative reporter Charles Clover, ”The End of the Line” provides a firsthand analysis of the effects of our global love affair with fish as food. Rupert Murray, Director of “The End of The Line“, comments, “Documentary filmmakers are unique in that we want to change the world; we want to make things better, which is why it is fantastic to win the PUMA.Creative Impact Award. This is an award that truly understands and recognises our investment.”
http://fashionnews.com/2011/10/12/puma-creative-announces-the-end-of-the-li…
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Charles Clover's film 'The End of the Line' causes M&S and Pret a Manger to ban bluefin tuna
Pret a Manger's founder and chairman Julian Metcalfe has announced that in future the chain will only sell skipjack tuna after seeing Charles Clover's film 'The End of the Line', which he described as 'brilliant'. Also following screenings of 'The End of the Line' at 50 cinemas across the country on World Oceans Day, Marks and Spencer has claimed that it is switching to using pole and line caught tuna in its entire food range. Waitrose, who sponsored the screenings, also no longer sells bluefin tuna. Celebrities who turned out to support the film included Stephen Fry, Gretta Scacchi, Alan Rickman and Colin Firth.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jun/08/pret-a-manger-sustainable-tuna-fil…
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Film 'The End of the Line' launches in the UK on World Oceans Day, June 8th
'The End of the Line', the first major feature documentary film revealing the impact of overfishing on our oceans and based on investigative reporter Charles Clover's book of the same name, premiered at Sundance Festival in January 2009 and launches in the UK on World Oceans Day, June 8th. Voiceover by Ted Danson, sponsored by Waitrose, and supported by WWF, Oceana, Marviva, Greenpeace, Marine Conservation Society and many other ngos. Filmed across the world - from the Straits of Gibraltar to the coasts of Senegal and Alaska to the Tokyo fish market - featuring top scientists, indigenous fishermen and fisheries enforcement officials, 'The End of the Line' is a wake-up call to the world.
http://endoftheline.com/
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The End of the Line to premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2009
The End of the Line is to have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2009, the leading showcase in the US for independent films. Directed by Rupert Murray, the film is based on the book by Charles Clover about the devastating effect that global overfishing is having on fish stocks and the health of our oceans. It was one of 16 films selected from 744 submissions in the World Cinema Documentary category.
http://festival.sundance.org/2009/press_industry/releases/2009_sundance_fil…