Book cover of 'The Dolphin Dilemma' by Olivia Andrus-Drennan, featuring an underwater scene with dolphins swimming.
Person smiling and holding a camera with a large lens, wearing a helmet with a goPro, glasses, and a blue jacket, sitting on a boat over water.

The Dolphin Dilemma

Imagine, waking up being covered in third-degree burns, that's what it's like for the Burrunan dolphins in Australia. But why is this happening? That's what Dr. Duignan, Director of Pathology at The Marine Mammal Center, Dr. Stephens from Murdoch University, and Dr. Robb from the Marine Mammal Foundation had to find out. This film explores this international collaboration that proves for the first time that these lesions being found on cetaceans around the world are only caused by climate change.

August 23, 2024
9-10 PM

LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
Little Theater
Van Dam Street and 47th Avenue

Olivia Andrus-Drennan

Olivia Andrus-Drennan is the producer, director, cinematographer, editor, and owner of Big Sky Genesis Productions LLC. Currently, she a video producer for the Global Foundation for Ocean Explorations working on videos to highlight the research being done in the deep sea.
She graduated from Montana State University with the Science and Natural History Filmmaking Degree in the fall of 2022. She has produced many different award-winning documentaries such as The Dolphin Dilemma, Diversified: The Florida Panther Story, Grounded, and Beauty.

She has worked closely with many different departments within Montana State University on different promotional videos for the College of Letters & Science, Math department, lab-based videos for the College of Letters & Sciences Chemistry department, and development and research for the film Aging in Style 2 for the College of Nursing.

Her company created three political and instructional videos for Montana VOICES about how to create a public comment in the state of Montana. She has worked on many scientific documentaries for companies such as The Marine Mammal Center, Marine Mammal Foundation, Don Edwards San Francisco Bay Wildlife Refuge, Guadalupe River Park Conservancy, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, the American Chemical Society, and NOAA.

A person in green waders standing in shallow water next to a large sturgeon fish with a long body and pointed snout.
A calm body of water with a lone orca swimming near the surface, reflecting the sky and distant shoreline.
A pod of dolphins swimming in the ocean with a distant shoreline and hills in the background under a partly cloudy sky.
A dolphin swimming near a boat's wake on dark blue water.
Two dolphins swimming in a calm body of water with trees on the distant shoreline.
A large whale swimming in the ocean with sunlight filtering through the water.