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The 2013 festival, marking our fourth consecutive year, was a smashing success. The crowd of ~600 in Savannah, GA loved the films, and are eager for more!
Throughout the rest of 2013, we will continue showing selected films at a series of mini-festivals in the US and worldwide. These are additional opportunities to showcase these films to an even broader public audience. In 2012 we hosted 12 mini-screenings worldwide, and we already have nearly a dozen festivals planned for 2013. Dates and locations are now listed on our mini-fests page!
The winners of the 2013 Beneath the Waves Film Festival are:
People’s Choice Award: “Mikono Ya Wavuvi” by Austin Humphries, Rhodes University
Best Student Film: “Saving North Carolina’s Reefs” by Michelle Broudeur, Rachel Gittman, Joseph Morton & Justin Ridge, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Best of Festival Award: “People of the Coral Triangle” by James Morgan, James Morgan Photography
Best Conservation Film: “Plight of the North Atlantic Right Whale” by Jeff Mittelstadt, Whale and Dolphin Conservation
2013 Films (*denotes student entry)
“A Ray of Light”
David Diley
Scarlet View Media / From the Office to the Ocean
“A Reef’s Tale”
Justin Ridge & Michelle Brodeur*
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Institute of Marine Sciences
“Acroporid Demographics: Threatened Coral Conservation”
Monika LaPlante
Smithsonian Institution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlOb28ji1z4&list=UUnsGJ9cIJtmWT_yjOZe2ghA&index=3
“A Shark’s Tale”
Ryan Kempster*
Support Our Sharks
http://m.youtube.com/
“Antarctica: The Hunt for Killer Crabs”
Frank Weyer, Honey Whitney*, Stephanie Vos, Richard Aronson
Florida Institute of Technology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcwXGfTtW3U
“BAJA”
Erick Higuera
Solmar V/Great White Adventures
“Bertha’s Blues”
Honey Whitney*, Glen Bupp, Richard Aronson
Florida Institute of Technology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMEKczizPAo
“Bertness Rock Anthem”
Eric Axelman and Nik Gonzalez *
Brown University
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFH_yN8cT5I
“Cod and Overfishing in the Gulf”
Linda Cabot
LNC Films - Fromthebowseat.org
“Corals in Crisis”
Cortland Brennan
“Coral Reefs: Polyps in Peril”
Jim Toomey, Bronson Hoover, Reefs Team at WRI
World Resources Institute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn5-ARXmQlQ
“Days of our Dives”
Andrea Dingeldein & Melissa Heintz
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
“Don’t Bite the Hand That Feeds”
Christine Shepard
RJ Dunlap Marine Conservation Program, University of Miami
“Ecosystem Services of the Ocean”
Lauren Hutchinson & Brittany Blomberg *
Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdBg257Fi3A&feature=youtu.be
“Field Chronicles: The Pacific Oceanscape”
Peter Stonier, John Martin, Becca Field & Sebastian Perry
Conservation International
“Field Spotlight: President Anote Tong”
Peter Stonier, John Martin, Becca Field & Sebastian Perry
Conservation International
“Fish Meat”
Sarah Curry
Fish Navy Films
“Galapagos Expedition”
John Ruthven and Alison Barrat
Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
“Grazer”
Patricia Allen
Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences
http://zenscience.org/
“Harbor Seal Monitoring in the Puget Sound”
Paul B. Hillman & Tara Smithee
NOAA Fisheries
“Improving mangrove management to protect the ocean’s tropical nurseries”
Virginia Shutte*
Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wCP9FsMq6o
“In the Grass, On the Reef”
Rob Diaz de Villegas
WFSU-TV (Florida State University)
“Kai Nohona”
Alexander Daniels*
University of Hawaii
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkpbRddKEkk
“Living Colorless: A Journey into Coral Bleaching”
Abdullah Al-Kandari and Dr. Huda Mahmoud
Kuwait University and Newtech Trading Centre
“Lophelia II: Reefs, Rigs, and Wrecks”
Peter Etnoyer & Maria Montoreano
NOAA & Aquanautix
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/
“Lost in the Wake”
Katie Jewett
Southern Environmental Law Center
“MADE: Mitigating Adverse Ecological Impacts of Ocean Fisheries”
Luc Markiw
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (Institute of research for development (IRD)
“Mercury: from Source to Seafood”
Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program and VOX Televison, Inc.
Dartmouth College
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Jabn5rhtk
“Mikono Ya Wavuvi (In Fishermen’s Hands)”
Austin Humphries*
Rhodes University
http://vimeo.com/austinhumphries/mikono
“Mission of Mermaids”
Susan Rockafeller
“Money or Life: Deadly Bottle Diving in the Barren Isles”
Jon Slayer
Independent filmmaker working with Blue Ventures
www.blueventures.org and http://www.jonslayer.net/
“NRDC and Whales of San Ignacio Lagoon”
Matt Amick
One World One Ocean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io2vX-m51UM
“O le Taeao Fou”
Lauren Wetzell, Andrea Ngan, Anna Petrick
Námaka Productions
“Oceanic Revelations”
Amanda Cotton
A Cotton Photo
“One Hundred Thousand”
Liza Hoos*
Duke University
“Only Time Will Tell”
Clark DeHart*
Virginia Tech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
“Pacific Nets”
Camilo Martinez
Corporacion Cromatophoro
“People of the Coral Triangle”
James Morgan
James Morgan Photography
“Plight of the North Atlantic Right Whale”
Jeff Mittelstadt
WildSides, Whale and Dolphin Conservation
“Posidonia”
Neil Losin, Nate Dappen, Joris van Alphen
Day’s Edge Productions, Joris van Alphen Photography
https://vimeo.com/60787539 (Spanish-subtitled)
“Protecting Reefs, Protecting Economies”
Monika LaPlante
Smithsonian Institution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20H6lJK6Puo&list=UUnsGJ9cIJtmWT_yjOZe2ghA&index=1
“Rare Encounter with the Greenland Shark”
Matt Amick
One World One Ocean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrWEi2SVu8c
“Right Whale: Urbanizes”
Noelle Anderson*
Student filmmaker, Noble and Greenough School
“SAIL: Want to be a marine biologist?”
Michael Gil*
University of Florida
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAny2vpmRvg
“Saving North Carolina’s Reefs”
Michelle Brodeur*, Rachel Gittman, Joseph Morton & Justin Ridge
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
“Saving The Blue Whales of Sri Lanka”
Eric Olsen
Daily Telegraph
“Sea Nettles – A Love Story”
Nina Sassano and Jen Barny
Barnegat Bay Partnership, Ocean County College
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Jm9IP0YRQ
“Shellshocked: Saving Oysters to Save Ourselves”
Emily Driscoll
Independent filmmaker
“Sponge Science”
Matt Amick
One World One Ocean
“Tagged, You’re It!”
Paul Chetirkin & Sarah Fangman
NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
“Tasmania’s Disappearing Giant Kelp Forests”
Rebecca Ramaley
“The Longest Time”
Allison Fritts-Penniman*
UCLA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BI2m3QoaS8
“The Indian River Lagoon: What the Muck?”
Phillip Gravinese and Lauren Toth*
Florida Institute of Technology
“The Story of Sharks”
Ian Rossiter & Brendan Talwar
Cape Eleuthera Institute / Raining Down Island Productions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeYimVDchqA
“Their Right to Rest”
Heather Heenehan*
Duke University
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRv0IkztxPI
“Two Fish”
Sarah Curry
Fish Navy Films
“Understanding the Giant Pacific Octopus”
DeAnna Morris
NOAA Fisheries (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration)
http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/species/octopus.php
“Whale Fall: After Life of a Whale”
Sharon Shattuck & Flora Lichtman
Affiliation: Sweet Fern Productions
Link: http://vimeo.com/29987934
“What would you say?”
Simon Spear
Festival Partners
Our passion for ocean science, media, and conservation are fueled by a number of exciting groups. For 2013 we are proud to announce exciting partnerships with the following leading operations:
Epic Diving
The name says it all. This Bahamian-based ecotourism outfit specializes in putting people close (and we mean close) to ocean predators. If you’re in search of an ocean story, look no further - they are the only dive operator in the world to provide reliable encounters with the oceanic whitetip shark, one of the most declined species in the Atlantic Ocean. Check them out here: www.epicdiving.com
Waterlust
In 2012, a group of ocean scientists, athletes, and advocates created a short film series with one goal in mind: connect people’s personal love (lust) for water with the world. Powered by GoPro cameras and passion, their o
nline presence has skyrocketed in the last year, with their first 11 films have gained over 450,000 views, attracting global attention. They also train newbie filmmakers in shooting/editing/crafting stories, giving voices to the amazing stories that are yet to be told. Spread the lust here: https://www.youtube.com/user/Waterlust