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. …

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 …