
Turtle: The incredible Journey

A loggerhead turtle follows the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world. Born on a beach in Florida she rides the Gulf Stream around the Ocean before coming back home to lay her own eggs, 30 years later.
Data
- aka
- The Turtle's Song
- Category
- Documentary
- Financing
- Minority coproduction
- Format
- 35 mm, 80 Min
- Approximate cinema release
- 02.10.2009
- Release
- 02.10.2009
- Distribution
- Luna Filmverleih GmbH
- Admissions
- 6.062
- Co-production
Big Fame Ltd. (UK), Tradewind Pictures (DE)
- International funding
Filmstiftung Nordrhein Westfalen, UK Tax Credit
- Festivals & Awards (Selection)
2009: President's Award Documentary (Fort Lauderdale)
2009: Gold Award for Cinematography – Wildlife/Nature (Melbourne)- Funding program
- ÖFI
- Film location
- USA, Canada, Bahamas, Portugal
- Shooting time
- October 2007 - January 2008
- Funding institutions Austria
- Filminstitut
Credits
- Production
- ALLEGRO Filmproduktionsgesellschaft m.b.H.
- Producer
- Helmut Grasser
- Director
- Nick Stringer
- Script-concept
- Nick Stringer
- DOP
- Rory McGuiness
- Editor
- Richard Wilkinson, Sean Barton
- Sound engineer
- Brian Moseley
- Set design
- Thomas Cochraine
- Production manager
- Angela Palmerton
- International distribution
- Sola Media
- German Title
- Tortuga - Die unglaubliche Reise der Meeresschildkröte
- Television investment
- ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)
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