Celebrate Pride and Reconsider the Oyster in St Petersburg at @webbcitycellar with a special Floridian Premiere of @holdingbackthetide
Sunday, June 22nd from 1-5pm
"Facts and dreamy moments mingle in an unconventional take on the nature program.” - The New York Times
Director Emily Packer @marginalgapgirl will be in person for a Q&A after the film. @lostcoastoysters will be shucking oysters available for purchase with beer pairings by @greenbenchbrewing
Get your tickets HERE! This event has limited space and is sure to shell out!
About the Film
Holding Back the Tide This impressionist hybrid documentary traces the oyster through its many life cycles in New York, once the world’s oyster capital. Now their specter haunts the city through queer characters embodying ancient myth, discovering the overlooked history and biology of the bivalve that built the city. As environmentalists restore them to the harbor, Holding Back The Tide looks to the oyster as a queer icon, entangled with nature, with much to teach about our continued survival.
IG: @holdingbackthetide
Web: holdingbackthetidefilm.com
About the Filmmaker
Emily Packer is an award-winning experimental filmmaker and editor with an interest in geography, hybrid formats, and collaborative practices. Their directorial work has been screened at film festivals and theaters internationally, and is being distributed by platforms including the Criterion Channel, Grasshopper Films, and PBS. Emily’s feature debut “Holding Back the Tide” is a hybrid film about oysters as queer environmental heroes in NYC, which took inspiration from its subject in its community-forward approach to filmmaking. Emily's films have been utilized in partnership with organizations working towards environmental sustainability, queer and trans liberation, and an anti-racist future. In addition to her editing and directing work, Emily is a hobbyist curator having served on programming committees for Tribeca, Gotham Week, and guest-curated the Coastal Knowledge series for the Rockaway Film Festival in 2021. They were a fellow in the 2018 Collaborative Studio at UnionDocs in Brooklyn, and are a proud alumna of the anomalous Hampshire College. Emily collects voicemails for future use; consider yourself notified.
IG: @marginalgapgirl
Web: marginalgapfilms.com
About the Moderator
Jameson W. Yingling is a filmmaker, writer, and social entrepreneur who examines, explores, and celebrates the human condition. Jameson’s work focuses on existentialism, the phenomenology of aging and death, postcolonialism, and ecological interdependence. Jameson is the founder of Existential Co. and a guest lecturer at Florida Gulf Coast University where he helped to develop and lead the Rock of Ages initiative. He was a founding partner and former CEO of the media company Sugarshack and the Sugarshack Music Channel. Jameson splits his time between Los Angeles, CA and Bonita Springs, FL.
IG: @jamesonyingling
About the Co-Host
Existential Co. is a creative studio & film production company focused on engaging audiences with life’s most important questions. Through story and community, Existential Co. cultivates greater intention, connection, and purpose in the world.
IG: @existential__co
Web: existentialco.com
About the Oysters
Lost Coast Oysters is Tampa Bay's first sustainable oyster farm, growing our signature 'LoCos' in the pristine waters of the Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve. After 3 years, they developed a devout following of "LoCo" lovers and achieved local notoriety by being featured at all of the hottest restaurants. They launched their "Rawsome Raw Bar" and started popping it up at weddings, private parties, and breweries across the Bay Area and began sourcing from other local farmers to meet the growing demand.
IG: @lostcoastoysters
Web: lostcoastoysters.com