Today National Geographic released the official trailer for Sea of Shadows, as well as a new design for the movie poster. We also got an official release date for the US theater run: July 12th! Here’s the new movie poster:
How Can I Help the Vaquita?
This is one of the most difficult questions to answer because the issues impacting the vaquita are complex and multifaceted. The vaquita also doesn’t have much time left, so if you’re hoping to do something to help out, you’ve got to act now! I’ll break this post into a few different categories based upon how much energy and effort you’re …
Sea of Shadows Idaho Premiere!
I’m extremely excited to be traveling to Sun Valley this coming weekend for the Idaho premiere of Sea of Shadows! Sun Valley Film Festival has been brining high caliber films and Hollywood celebrities to the mountains of Idaho since 2012. It’s mountain resort town location and celebrity guests have drawn numerous comparisons to Sundance Film Festival. But Sun Valley Film Festival …
How the Wild Lens Collective got involved with the new film Sea of Shadows
In the spring of 2017 Wild Lens released the half hour documentary Souls of the Vermilion Sea about the struggle to save the vaquita, the world’s most endangered marine mammal. We had a very targeted outreach and distribution plan for this film – we wanted to use the documentary as a tool to influence the outcome of the issue through …
What has Wild Lens done since the Release of Souls of the Vermilion Sea to help the vaquita and the local community?
In the spring of 2017 fellow Wild Lens filmmaker Sean Bogle and myself were driving from my home in Boise, Idaho towards the Mexican border. We had just completed work on our 30-minute documentary film about the vaquita – the world’s most endangered marine mammal – and we were heading towards the epicenter of the vaquita issue – San Felipe, …
Why did Wild Lens make a film about the Vaquita?
Click Here to Watch Souls of the Vermilion Sea on Amazon Prime! Wild Lens was born out of a strong desire to halt species declines and prevent wildlife extinctions. Our first film focused on the endangered California condor, a species that very narrowly escaped extinction in the 1980s. While working on that film, I interviewed many of the biologists who …
What Impact has our Ongoing Vaquita Campaign had on the Species?
Click Here to Watch Souls of the Vermilion Sea on Amazon Prime! When fellow filmmaker Sean Bogle and I chose to take this project on and make a documentary (or several) about the vaquita, we had one clear goal – to have an impact on the outcome of the issue. We wanted to help prevent the extinction of the vaquita. …
Vaquita Chronicles: What is Being Done to Save the Vaquita?
For the past six weeks here on our blog we’ve been exploring a variety of ongoing efforts undertaken to prevent the extinction of the vaquita. Here we present all of this same information in podcast form, as an episode of our new audio series, The Vaquita Chronicles.
Collaboration is Key to Conservation
Something that we have noticed here at Wild Lens on many of the conservation projects that we’ve been involved with is a lack of cohesiveness and collaboration amongst different groups working on the same issue. While there have certainly been some really fantastic and beneficial collaborative efforts implemented to help address the vaquita issue, there have also been some troubling …
Taking the Vaquita’s Story to Sundance
Just yesterday Sundance announced the selection of 112 feature length films to screen at the 2019 festival. One of those films is Sea of Shadows, produced in association with the Wild Lens Collective and co-directed by Wild Lens filmmaker Sean Bogle, and myself. Needless to say, we are ecstatic about this exciting development and the opportunity that it offers to …