CFF was excited to partner with the Waterfront Alliance for a screening of the captivating short film WindShipped (dir. Jon Bowermaster, 2022, 39 min.), screened during Climate Week NYC aboard the historic 1885 Tall Ship Wavertree, a part of the South Street Seaport Museum. A panel discussion followed the screening, featuring Jon Bowermaster (director, WindShipped), Brad Vogel (Founding member, Schooner Apollonia Advisory Board), and moderated by Jesse R. Tendler (CFF Programming Director).
About the Film:
What started as one man’s quixotic dream has turned into reality. For the past five years the 65-foot Schooner Apollonia has been delivering goods up and down the Hudson River by sail—sans fossil fuels—a throwback to a time when there were 1,200 such boats on the river each day. It turns out buyers prefer the non-polluting, anti-Amazon way of making deliveries.
About the Panelists:
Jon Bowermaster, director, WindShipped
Writer, filmmaker, and adventurer, Jon Bowermaster is a six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council. One of the Society’s “Ocean Heroes,” his first assignment for National Geographic Magazine was documenting a 3,741 mile crossing of Antarctica by dogsled. Jon has written eleven books and produced/directed more than thirty documentary films. His feature documentaries include Dear President Obama, Antarctica, on the Edge, After the Spill, and Ghost Fleet. His National Geographic-sponsored Oceans 8 project took him and his teams around the world by sea kayak over the course of ten years (1999-2008), bringing back stories from the Aleutian Islands to French Polynesia, Gabon to Tasmania, and more, reporting on how the planet’s one ocean and its various coastlines are faring in today’s busy world. Jon lives in New York’s Hudson Valley. He is the President of the One Ocean Media Foundation, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Adventure Science, and Creative Affiliate of The Safina Center. For the past several years, Jon and his One Ocean Media Foundation / Oceans 8 Films team have focused on a series of short films about the environmental risks to and hopes for the Hudson River Valley, the birthplace of the American environmental movement. (hudsonriverstories.com) Jon is a Visiting Lecturer at Bard College in the Environment and Urban Studies Department; tune into his weekly radio show/podcast, “The Green Radio Hour with Jon Bowermaster,” at radiokingston.org.
Brad Vogel, Founding member, Schooner Apollonia Advisory Board
Brad Vogel is the founding member of the Schooner Apollonia advisory board. He previously served as supercargo for the vessel, leading cargo and logistics efforts for the sail freight startup from 2020 through summer 2024. A producer, attorney, poet, curator, and waterfront advocate, he previously served as a fellow with the Center for Post Carbon Logistics, captain of the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club, executive director of the Preservation Archive Project, and a founding member of the Blue Highways Coalition.
