A NATIONAL film tour showcasing tales from the deep is set to return to Cumbria this autumn.
The 2017 Ocean Film Festival visits the Theatre by the Lake, in Keswick, on Sunday October 1, and includes a collection of the latest and best films from both above and below the ocean's surface.
The annual event brings with it a brand new selection of films curated by the team behind the Banff Film Festival UK Tour. This collection of short films celebrates divers, paddlers, surfers and oceanographers who live for the sea’s salt spray.
Be wowed at mind-blowing marine life, exhilarated by the power of the waves, and inspired by the characters who dedicate their lives to answering the call of the ocean.
There are seven films included in the 2017 programme, ranging from three-minute shorts to 48-minute feature films.
Keith Malloy's Fishpeople tells the stories of a unique cast of characters who have dedicated their lives to the sea. From surfers and spearfishers to a long-distance swimmer, a former coal miner and a group of at-risk kids, it’s a film about the transformative effects of time spent in the ocean—and how we can leave our limitations behind to find deeper meaning in the saltwater wilderness that lies just beyond the shore.
Haven looks at the largest shipwreck in the Mediterranean, and this expedition is even more captivating as it’s made by freedivers, including four-time world freediving champion Guillaume Néry.
The Legacy, by Erick Higuera, takes the audience to a remote archipelago in Mexico, where the marine environment is still described as being "thriving", where as David Day makes colourful yet surprisingly life-like models of all sorts of marine life, turning worthless junk into objects of beauty, and raising awareness of the ever-growing problem of plastic in our oceans, in his film Ocean Rubbish.
The longest film, Sea Gypsies, follows 120-foot nomadic sailing boat Infinity and her 16-strong crew, who leave New Zealand to travel 8,000 miles across the Pacific to Patagonia, via Antarctica.
Dustin Adamson's Stay With Us dives deep to introduce us to creatures far stranger than those we can dream up for sci-fi films, and Tess Brosnan's Whale Chasers meets an unusual team of ‘citizen scientists’ keeping watch for migrating humpback whales.
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