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Inspired by a picture book, Max Romey headed to a remote beach on Alaska’s coastline in search of marine debris. What he found was a different story.

“If you Give a Beach a Bottle,” the quirky short film that resulted, focuses on a beach cleanup in Alaska. The trash that’s gathered is from all over the world, having traveled by global ocean currents to wash up on Alaska’s shoreline. What it demonstrates in real time is how pollution, whether physical, found in the air, or dissolved in water, knows no boundaries.

That’s just one of the short films that will be screened at the 21st annual Wild & Scenic film festival. “What made this film stand out is its reminder that the solution to environmental problems lies in teamwork,” explains Alexa Maione, Citizens Advisory Committee Project Associate of the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay. “Wherever there’s pollution, there’s probably going …