The Chances of the World Changing is a 2007 Independent Spirit Award-nominated documentary

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 about Richard Ogust's efforts to save endangered

Endangered species

An endangered species is a population of organisms which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in numbers, or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters...

 turtle

Turtle

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 species from extinction

Extinction

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. It was directed and produced by Eric Daniel Metzgar

Eric Daniel Metzgar

Eric Daniel Metzgar is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. His debut film, a documentary entitled The Chances of the World Changing, which he directed, produced, shot and edited, premiered at the 2006 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival...

 (Merigold Moving Pictures) and produced by Nell Carden Grey (Pigeon Post Pictures). Other credits include Eric Liebman (original music), Noe Venable

Noe Venable

Noe Venable is an experimental folk/pop singer-songwriter. She has earned a loyal fan base in her native San Francisco, in part through frequently performing in small, intimate venues...

 (additional music and voice-over engineer), and Faun Fables

Faun Fables

Faun Fables is a band from Oakland, California. Faun Fables is a concept and vehicle for Dawn McCarthy, who was inspired to write the original material while traveling after leaving the New York City music scene in 1997. Faun Fables also covers both 20th century compositions by other song writers...

 (contributor of the song "Live Old").

The film follows Ogust's efforts to establish a "Noah's ark

Noah's Ark

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," or sanctuary

Sanctuary

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 and research institute

Research institute

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, in order to preserve the animals until such time that they can be returned to their natural habitats, which are being wiped out by ecological

Ecology

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 destruction and poaching

Poaching

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 - the problem that conservation biologists have dubbed "the Asian turtle crisis".

Chances premiered at the 2006 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is an annual international event dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of non-fiction cinema. Each spring Full Frame welcomes filmmakers and film lovers from around the world to historic downtown Durham, North Carolina for a four-day, morning to midnight...

 and was aired on the Public Broadcasting Service

Public Broadcasting Service

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 series P.O.V.

P.O.V.

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 beginning July 17, 2007. It was also nominated for the Axium Truer Than Fiction Award as part of the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards.

External links

• The Chances of the World Changing at Independent Spirit Awards
• The Chances of the World Changing at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
  Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
  The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is an annual international event dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of non-fiction cinema. Each spring Full Frame welcomes filmmakers and film lovers from around the world to historic downtown Durham, North Carolina for a four-day, morning to midnight...
  
  
• The Chances of the World Changing at Public Broadcasting Service
  Public Broadcasting Service
  The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....