• Documentary

Sea of Shadows

Sea of Shadows is a feature documentary thriller that follows undercover investigators, environmentalists, journalists, and the Mexican Navy on their desperate last-minute effort to rescue the Earth’s smallest whale-the Vaquita-from extinction.
A looming disaster in one of the most spectacular environments on Earth sparks a rescue mission unlike any other in Sea of Shadows, a riveting new documentary with the intensity of a Hollywood thriller.
When Mexican drug cartels and Chinese traffickers join forces to poach the rare totoaba fish in the Sea of Cortez, their deadly methods threaten to destroy virtually all marine life in the region, including the elusive and mysterious whale species known as the vaquita porpoise.
But a team of brilliant scientists, high-tech conservationists, investigative journalists and courageous undercover agents put their lives on the line to save the last remaining vaquita and bring the vicious international crime syndicate to justice.

Data

aka
Vaquita - Sea of Ghosts
Category
Documentary
Financing
Nationaler Film
Format
DCP, 104 Min
Release
20.09.2019
Distribution
Stadtkino Filmverleih und Kinobetriebs Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Admissions
5.144
Funding Film Institute
518.618 €
Share of total production costs
27 %
Festivals & Awards (Selection)

world premiere: Sundance Film Festival in Utah/USA 2019

Funding program
ÖFI
Film location
Mexico, Hongkong/China, USA
Shooting time
March - June 2018
Days of shooting
71
Completion
Winter 2018/2019
Funding institutions Austria
Filminstitut, Filmstandort Austria
Credits
Production
Terra Mater Factual Studios GmbH
Producer
Walter Köhler, Wolfgang Knöpfler, Dinah Czezik-Müller, Michael Frenschkowski
Director
Richard Ladkani
Script-concept
Richard Ladkani
DOP
Richard Ladkani
Editor
Georg Fischer, Verena Schönauer
Sound engineer
Roland Winkler
Sound design
Michael Plöderl, Bernhard Zorzi
Music
H. Scott Salinas
Production manager
Sarah Nörenberg, Anita Ladkani
International distribution
Submarine

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