The Lighthouse International Film Society will be screening the 75-minute documentary “Turtle Walker” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18 at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in Loveladies.
The screening is sponsored by the Foundation, the Alliance for a Living Ocean and the Terrapin Nesting Project.
The film, directed by Taira Maleney, tells the story of Satish Bhaskar, who, in the 1970s, became a turtle walker. He walked nearly the entire coastline of India and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in search of sea turtles.
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