Fish for the Future

2025 | Coast Film & Music Festival

Duration: 5 min

Synopisis

Fish For The Future follows Rosi Digit, the Principal Conservation Biologist at Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains who has been an integral part of conservation in the Santa Monica Mountains for nearly four decades.  In January 2025, the Palisades Fire quickly approached her home and the habitats that she has protected for decades. When the fire burned all of the critical habitat for the endangered Southern Steelhead Trout in Topanga Creek, she knew they had to rescue as many fish as possible before the rains swept dangerous amounts of mud through the watershed, killing any aquatic species. She gathers with various groups and agencies to work and rescue many steelhead in the creek in an extremely limited time window.

Featured at Coast Film & Music Festival 2025

Production Team

Matthew Benton is a documentary filmmaker and photographer focused on environmental stories through a human lens. Since moving to Los Angeles more than a decade ago, he has worked on several documentary projects dedicated to restoring Malibu & Los Angeles coastlines alongside his grassroots efforts organizing with Surfrider Foundation LA.