
Keep the Coast on Your Left
A novice kayaker paddles alone from Los Angeles to Tijuana, roughly 200 miles of open Pacific coastline covered over ten days. The film follows that trip as both a physical test and a piece of activism: the paddler's stated goal is to draw attention to tuna overfishing and broader damage to ocean ecosystems along the route. With no support crew mentioned, the journey itself, camping and navigating a stretch of coast most people only see from a car window, becomes the argument for why the ocean's condition should matter to someone who has never been on it. The available record of the film is thin on specifics beyond the route, distance, and duration, so much of what a viewer takes away depends on watching the footage of the coastline itself rather than narration explaining it. It plays as a first-person account of one person's attempt to turn a personal challenge into a public case for protecting fish stocks and coastal waters.