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Karina Holden DIRECTOR / WRITER / PRODUCER Growing up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Karina has spent her life in saltwater. Passionate about protecting nature, she studied science at Sydney University and then completed a Postgraduate degree in Conservation Biology from University of Queensland. Fieldwork led her to work on the Great Barrier Reef, the Simpson Desert and the wet tropics of the Northern Australia. At the age of 23, Karina joined the Natural History Unit of the ABC where she worked for the next 7 years on blue chip wildlife documentaries as a researcher and eventually as a producer. Next, her spirit of adventure led her to living in Vietnam and Thailand for several years, where she made films in the Asian region for National Geographic and Discovery Channel. Returning to Australia, Karina continued making documentaries in many genres including wildlife, science and anthropology. This allowed her to travel to remote regions and tell unique stories of nature from tribal perspectives. With her 6 month old son, she spent time living with the Samburu tribe in Northern Kenya and gained a deeper insight into the importance of connection to land. In 2010, Karina took the job of commissioning editor of science and natural history at ABC TV. She over saw the production of 150 hours of factual content, before the desk job became wearisome and the wilderness called her back. Her role as Head of Factual at Northern Pictures has allowed her to oversee content creation for broadcast series, as well as director her own films. Karina has over 200 articles in print in nature magazines and is a passionate ambassador of conservation work in Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550721091786-8G6RLWCG4665MYZ8LFYJ/Karina+Blue.jpg Blue's Crew - Karina Holden DIRECTOR / WRITER / PRODUCER Growing up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Karina has spent her life in saltwater. Passionate about protecting nature, she studied science at Sydney University and then completed a Postgraduate degree in Conservation Biology from University of Queensland. Fieldwork led her to work on the Great Barrier Reef, the Simpson Desert and the wet tropics of the Northern Australia. At the age of 23, Karina joined the Natural History Unit of the ABC where she worked for the next 7 years on blue chip wildlife documentaries as a researcher and eventually as a producer. Next, her spirit of adventure led her to living in Vietnam and Thailand for several years, where she made films in the Asian region for National Geographic and Discovery Channel. Returning to Australia, Karina continued making documentaries in many genres including wildlife, science and anthropology. This allowed her to travel to remote regions and tell unique stories of nature from tribal perspectives. With her 6 month old son, she spent time living with the Samburu tribe in Northern Kenya and gained a deeper insight into the importance of connection to land. In 2010, Karina took the job of commissioning editor of science and natural history at ABC TV. She over saw the production of 150 hours of factual content, before the desk job became wearisome and the wilderness called her back. Her role as Head of Factual at Northern Pictures has allowed her to oversee content creation for broadcast series, as well as director her own films. Karina has over 200 articles in print in nature magazines and is a passionate ambassador of conservation work in Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550721089601-R36G77XB9BYXU0647DKH/sarah+beard+.png Blue's Crew - Sarah Beard PRODUCER / IMPACT PRODUCER Sarah has over 20 year’s experience delivering content to commercial clients, broadcasters and for feature release. She has worked across a broad spectrum of projects ranging from, The Matrix trilogies, James Cameron’s documentary Voyage to the Bottom of the Earth and the award winning Australians at War. As Visual FX producer at Animal Logic she worked on projects such as George Millers Happy Feet and produced animation content for Time Warner’s Cartoon Network. In 2012, Sarah joined Northern Pictures and focused her work on delivering Natural History series to international networks. As a passionate ocean conservation advocate, marine themed stories have always been Sarah's passion including; The Adventures of the Quest series, Island Life, Great White Matrix and Saltwater Heroes. In addition to her film work Sarah has been working as an outreach producer and Director on the board for Take 3 For The Sea, a grass roots organization giving a global voice on marine plastic pollution. Through her outreach work teaching kids in surf life saving clubs about caring for their ocean, Sarah has presented to over 3000 nippers and their parents around the country over the past three years. She has facilitated community beach clean ups clearing over ten tonnes of plastic pollution from our coastline. Working on Blue has been the ultimate project for Sarah, combining her extensive marine based film work and her not for profit ocean advocacy work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550721078507-G3OGO7TI8F65FPHMW9WZ/Jody+Muston.jpg Blue's Crew - Jody Muston DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY After working her way through the ranks of the camera department and cutting her teeth shooting countless shorts and music videos, Jody has emerged as one of Australia’s most exciting young DOPs whose work encompasses television, film and documentaries. Her first feature film One Eyed Girl won the prestigious ‘Dark Matters’ award at the Austin Film Festival. Through her work on The Turning (Berlin Film Festival) she participated in the prestigious Berlin Talent Program in 2014. Blue was a different kind of project for Jody, though it played to the strengths of her work, which is known as darkly atmospheric. She says, “It's always the story first that gets my creative mind ignited to the possibilities for the visual storytelling of a particular project. With Blue it was the promise of telling the story of the oceans that immediately made me excited about being a part of the film. As a diver I have seen many of the wonders of the ocean's depths over the years, however when I read the script for Blue I was presented with a lyrical opportunity to represent the many different challenges of our oceans in a distinct and beautiful way. We found a gentle observed approach that strayed from the traditional wildlife style allowed us to impart a tone of reflection throughout the film. Some sequences feeling more like a piece of dramatic narrative between our characters and the oceans, than documentary. For me the film is a calling for change but with a breath of fresh air to come closer, look deeper”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550721081569-RV6Q7OYYJS4JKH1B9R1R/Jon+Shaw.jpg Blue's Crew - Jon Shaw UNDERWATER CINEMATOGRAPHER Emmy nominated cinematographer Jon Shaw, has had a passion for the ocean and environment from an early age. From his beginnings as a marine biologist (University of Plymouth) and commercial diver, Jon has developed an enviable career travelling the world to film astonishing wildlife both above and below the ocean’s surface. Jon was drawn to working on the Northern Pictures documentary Blue by his passion for arresting the perils that face the ongoing sustainability of the world’s oceans. “Coral bleaching, dwindling shark numbers and the outcome of today’s overuse and disposal of plastics in our environment are issues I witness repeatedly through my work. Its been great to be a part of production that’s taking those issues to the people through film”, Jon Shaw said. Jon’s love for using the most advanced filming technology allows the audience a seemingly real-life glance into the environments he captures on film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550721094125-IHJRBPOUDQP1LR9LW54N/Vanessa+Milton.jpg Blue's Crew - Vanessa Milton EDITOR Vanessa is a documentary editor who is passionate about telling true stories that inspire audiences to pause and take a closer look at the world we inhabit and the people we often look past. She has worked on documentaries for the big screen, TV, web and radio for the last 15 years and has been fortunate to work alongside some of Australia’s most respected non-fiction filmmakers. She has won the Australian Film Institute award for Best Editing for her feature documentary work. Vanessa says, “For so many of us, the ocean is the last great wild space we have at our doorstep. I have been lucky to be able to explore some of our beautiful coastline in a small yacht, and I now live in a small town on the NSW far south coast where I see first hand the way ocean change is affecting the lives and livelihoods of those who live by the sea”. “The challenge with Blue was to keep the viewer engaged emotionally while also gripping them on a rational level. Ultimately, I feel that the greatest strength of Blue lies in the spirit of the activists we follow in the film. I hope that their determination to fight for the ocean, and not turn away from the devastation they witness every day, will leave the audience with a sense of their own empowerment, and the will to act.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550721072847-K9A1EIR1XC232XYTKF7F/Ash+Greig+Gibson.jpg Blue's Crew - Ash Greig Gibson COMPOSER Ash has composed the music to over 110 hours of TV documentaries and series including Who Do You Think You Are, The War That Changed Us, Jandamarra’s War, Frackman, Desert War, and Yagan), over 50 plays (recently Picnic At Hanging Rock and Angels in America) and 4 features. Ash has won 6 W.A. Screen Awards, in 2007 won an APRA/Australian Guild of Screen Composers Award for Best Music for a Short Film (Iron Bird) and has garnered 9 other nominations at those awards. In 2014 Ash was part of the team that won an AACTA Award for Best Sound for a Documentary for Desert War, and has two other AACTA nominations. Ash was also composer for the acclaimed 2017 Perth International Arts Festival opening event, Boorna Waanginy: The Trees Speak. Ash says, “The sheer beauty of Blue as a work of cinematography and the importance and power of its message were both inspiring and intimidating to work with. It was tempting to compose to grandeur and the darkness of the film, but it was important to give the audience the room to feel their own emotions in relation to what they were experiencing. This meant finding a subtle balance of instrumentation and tempo to support the images and enhance the broad yet shifting pace and moods”. “Scores like this are always the most challenging, as a single chord change or instrument can push it too hard in a certain direction. In the end, the music for Blue doesn’t overwhelm the power of the story, but instead negotiates the moods and shifts in pace and place with restrained sensitivity”. https://bluethefilm.org/blues-ocean-guardians daily 0.75 2019-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550723761056-MFI9XLEJBN9RNWDNKWYX/VRT-025+copy.jpg Blue's Ocean Guardians - Valerie Taylor Valerie Taylor has an ease and grace in the water that conceals her 82 years of age. Valerie has been diving for over 60 years. She can tell stories about a sea bursting with life, the great schools of fish, sharks as far as the eye can see. These, she says, are now gone. But Valerie remains hopeful. She believes that the ocean will recover, ‘if’ we leave it alone. Famous for her chainmail shark suit and gracing the covers of National Geographic, Valerie and her late husband, shark protection pioneer Ron Taylor, carved out an extraordinary career with their stunning marine documentaries. Ron and Valerie introduced Australia and the world to the wonders of marine life, and more specifically sharks. Starting their ocean careers as competitive spear-fishers, as their fascination with the oceans increased they gave up their spears for cameras. The list of credits and awards for Valerie Taylor is extensive. She and Ron were the first people to film great white sharks without the protection of a cage. They made countless shark films including Blue Water, White Death which caught the attention of American film Director Steven Spielberg and lead to them working on Jaws. The list of film and television credits is exhaustive but it’s the conservation work Valerie has done both in Australia and around the world that is truly impressive. Through her campaigning efforts she prevented oil exploration in Ningaloo Marine Park, overturned mining rights on Coral Sea Islands, won protection for many places on the Great Barrier Reef before it was given World Heritage status and lobbied for the maintenance of sanctuary zones in South Australia. In 1986 Valerie was appointed Rider of the Order of the Golden Ark for marine conservation by his Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. In 2003 Valerie was awarded the Order of Australia for her conservation efforts. Pioneering diver, shark advocate, conservationist, artist, ask Valerie and she’s say “I’m a diver who loves Australia’s oceans.” Pictured: Val with husband Ron Taylor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550723761056-MFI9XLEJBN9RNWDNKWYX/VRT-025+copy.jpg Blue's Ocean Guardians - Valerie Taylor Valerie Taylor has an ease and grace in the water that conceals her 82 years of age. Valerie has been diving for over 60 years. She can tell stories about a sea bursting with life, the great schools of fish, sharks as far as the eye can see. These, she says, are now gone. But Valerie remains hopeful. She believes that the ocean will recover, ‘if’ we leave it alone. Famous for her chainmail shark suit and gracing the covers of National Geographic, Valerie and her late husband, shark protection pioneer Ron Taylor, carved out an extraordinary career with their stunning marine documentaries. Ron and Valerie introduced Australia and the world to the wonders of marine life, and more specifically sharks. Starting their ocean careers as competitive spear-fishers, as their fascination with the oceans increased they gave up their spears for cameras. The list of credits and awards for Valerie Taylor is extensive. She and Ron were the first people to film great white sharks without the protection of a cage. They made countless shark films including Blue Water, White Death which caught the attention of American film Director Steven Spielberg and lead to them working on Jaws. The list of film and television credits is exhaustive but it’s the conservation work Valerie has done both in Australia and around the world that is truly impressive. Through her campaigning efforts she prevented oil exploration in Ningaloo Marine Park, overturned mining rights on Coral Sea Islands, won protection for many places on the Great Barrier Reef before it was given World Heritage status and lobbied for the maintenance of sanctuary zones in South Australia. In 1986 Valerie was appointed Rider of the Order of the Golden Ark for marine conservation by his Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. In 2003 Valerie was awarded the Order of Australia for her conservation efforts. Pioneering diver, shark advocate, conservationist, artist, ask Valerie and she’s say “I’m a diver who loves Australia’s oceans.” Pictured: Val with husband Ron Taylor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550723915427-7B052K7TGRYI2W87HDLE/IMG_2125.jpg Blue's Ocean Guardians - Lucas Handley Lucas spent his childhood barefoot on a farm in the Byron Bay hinterland in Australia. His days were spent exploring the nearby rainforest looking for platypus, pulling yabbies out of the creek, climbing trees and building dens. He’s passionate about preserving the natural world for future generations so they the same magical opportunity to connect with nature that he had. Lucas started exploring the ocean as a young boy, spear fishing, for the family meal. As an eight year old, when other kids were reading Dr Seuss, he was reading fish taxonomy books and knew all the Latin names of the fish he caught. Now as a marine biologist, underwater photographer and freedive instructor, these days Lucas is more likely to be found underwater then above water, diving to depths of 55m on one breath of air. Able to hold is breath for six minutes, the ocean is his spiritual home. Lucas has dedicated his life to promoting a global approach to ecologically sustainable development. An easy going and often laconic boy from the bush, he is a passionate advocate for the future of the oceans. He has assisted campaigns to force inquiries into better management of our precious marine resources as well as assisting in the hands on research. Lucas insists reliable science and a deep understanding of all the people who use it, what they value, what their needs are, is essential to managing this finite resource. One way he is doing this, is through his work with Scuba for Change, and organisation that invests in Pacific Island communities and their sustainable future. He is helping villagers in the Solomon Islands keep their reefs intact by developing their own ecotourism enterprises. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550723872403-YB4ADO2LZIDNGLRTQC7R/1Q4A1670.jpg Blue's Ocean Guardians - Madison Stewart To others Madison Stewart is a passionate young conservationist, activist and shark advocate but Madison Stewart (aka Shark Girl), self described, is just a person, who refuses to believe sharks will loose their home in their lifetime, at the hands of governments and worldwide neglect. Madi grew up with a life connected to the ocean, living on a yacht on the Great Barrier Reef from the age of 2. Making an agreement with her father to trade in her school fees for an underwater camera, Madi left school when she was 14 to begin home schooling. From that point on, the ocean creatures were her teachers and her classroom was the Great Barrier Reef. Even at her young age, Madi witnessed change. She noticed a decline in the number and type of sharks as a result of ‘legal’ shark fishing with the World Heritage park, with catches equaling 78,000 sharks taken each year. Madi will tell you she has always had an affinity with sharks, large and small. So outraged at the destruction she saw first hand she resolved to do something about it. At the young age of 16, she dedicated her life to the protection and preservation of sharks. As an underwater filmmaker she wants to show the world what is being destroyed. Over 73 million sharks are taken for the shark fin trade alone each year. She uses her camera and her talks as tools to grow public's awareness about the plight of sharks, with the ultimate goal of getting governments around the world to take action to protect sharks. “I want a future with sharks in it. This is the end I am fighting for”, and she’s fighting very hard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550723827567-L0QB60VXOOQ72B5CVGSI/1Q4A1984.jpg Blue's Ocean Guardians - Tim Silverwood Environmentalist, plastics campaigner, sustainability advocate and surfer, Tim Silverwood is a self described ordinary guy who somehow found himself at the forefront of a global movement. Travelling the globe with his surf board, Tim was appalled at the state of many or the worlds beaches and premium surf spots. He made a personal decision to clean plastic from his favorite surfing beaches and his desire to inspire others to do the same has led him down an extraordinary path of scientific exploration, advocacy and activism. This path led Tim on to co-found ‘Take 3 - a Clean Beach Initiative’ that asks everyone to simply take 3 pieces of rubbish when they leave the beach, waterway or…anywhere. Take 3 takes the issue of marine plastic pollution into schools, surf lifesaving clubs, and the broader community. In 2016, Tim was invited to Washington DC to attend the 3rd Annual Our Oceans Conference hosted by the then U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. A leading advocate for reducing plastic pollution in the world’s oceans, Tim was thrilled to moderate the panel on marine pollution at this prestigious gathering of world leaders and influencers. In addition to his work with Take 3, Tim is also a co-founder of the Plastic Bag Free NSW campaign, a spokesperson for the Boomerang Alliance campaigning for better recycling and has facilitated over 200 educational seminars to schools, universities, businesses, community groups and government departments since 2011. With a vision to be a leader in significantly reducing plastic pollution in Australia and around the glove, Take 3 has set a goal to remove 3 million pieces of plastic from the ocean over next 3 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550723958171-3KUWEVUPCRLPO63259YH/jenn+and+shearwater.jpeg Blue's Ocean Guardians - Dr. Jennifer Lavers Growing up on the prairies of Alberta, Canada, Jennifer couldn’t have been further away from the tropical paradise that is Lord Howe Island where she spends so much of her time now working. This paradise holds a dark secret. Here 100% of the shearwater chicks contain plastic they’ve been fed by their parents, foraging in the South Pacific. Jennifer is a marine eco-toxicologist with expertise in seabird ecology, plastic pollution, invasive species management, and fisheries by-catch. The long term monitoring of sea bird colonies has taken her to remote locations around the globe. She has worked for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the US Fish and Wildlife Service in Hawaii and the Canadian Sub-Arctic. Jennifer currently works as a research scientist at the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania. Jennifer is passionate about communicating the issues surrounding marine plastic pollution to the public. She coordinates community environmental activities for school groups and hosts dozens of science workshops and seminars every year. Ultimately Jennifer hopes her research will contribute significantly to the responsible use of plastic products as well as the management of wildlife at risk from plastic ingestion across the globe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550724004826-B22M62SZKH1AAHBCWI2U/1Q4A2764.jpg Blue's Ocean Guardians - Phillip Mango Phillip Mango grew up on Cape York peninsular and now works as a Senior Nanum Wungthim Land and Sea Ranger. The ‘saltwater country’ he looks after includes some of the most intact coastal and marine habitats in the world. It is one of the last great strongholds for globally threatened turtles and dugongs and supports some the world’s largest mangrove forests, coral reefs and seagrass meadows. It also has one of the most intact traditional Indigenous knowledge-based management regimes on the planet. The Nanum Wungthim Rangers operate a highly successful sea turtle rescue operation and manage one of the regions hotspots for ghost nets. Working with Ghostnets Australia, Phillip leads a team of six hardworking rangers all of whom are passionate about their coastline, rescuing injured marine life and removing ghost nets from their coastline each year. Working closely with Cairns Turtle Rehabilitation Centre, Phillip and the rangers have restored many injured turtles back to health in addition to monitoring and recording data on the breeding, hatching and nest sites of our endangered marine turtles. Collectively they have rescued over 300 entrapped turtles and removed 13,000 nets from the Gulf of Carpentaria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550724059508-8D5TKXFQB9E0DMJAQ9ZU/1Q4A2854.jpg Blue's Ocean Guardians - Mark Dia Mark Dia is the Regional Oceans campaigner for Greenpeace South East Asia. Through his work, he has uncovered illegal fishing practices, corruption and labour abuses within the seafood industry, and is fighting hard for global sustainable fishing practices. Mark has a long history with Greenpeace that dates back over 20 years when he climbed onboard the MV Greenpeace as one of the very first Greenpeace volunteers in South East Asia. Inspired by their success in preventing dumping of radioactive wastes at sea, his Greenpeace days started out climbing a crane with a banner that said “Australia Stop Wasting Asia”, on a ship dumping toxic waste off Manila. “It was a way of telling the world what was going on, otherwise no one would know”. That sort of action – peaceful yet powerful, started a career Mark chased with a passionate desire to make change. Now, as the Regional Oceans campaigner for Greenpeace SE Asia, his key focus is on preventing unsustainable fishing. He and his team have recently audited the tuna canneries of Indonesia and the Philippines – tracing the supply chain between fishing fleets and the product sold to consumers. It’s a difficult, often dangerous task attempting to stop ‘fish laundering’, where illegal seafood is co-mingled with legal caught fish – hiding the true scale of the black market. But Mark wants consumers to know which companies rank as socially responsible, when it comes to the business of seafood. Mark believes we are facing a seafood crisis, which consumers can help avert. “When the fish run out, the small scale fishermen will be left starving while the big fishing company owners can go into another business with their fat profits”. Mark has his work cut out for him. These communities, with a population of 12 million worldwide, literally have a life-or-death stake in having sustainable fisheries. https://bluethefilm.org/facts daily 0.75 2019-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550622543104-EYUNLEBEQ152NX210HVC/globe.png Facts & Figures - 75% The ocean covers three-quarters of the earth’s surface and represents 99% of the living space on the planet by volume. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550622543104-EYUNLEBEQ152NX210HVC/globe.png Facts & Figures - 75% The ocean covers three-quarters of the earth’s surface and represents 99% of the living space on the planet by volume. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550623619186-I3WM484CLFGW9OW3C8DS/054-octopus.png Facts & Figures - 200,000 The ocean contains nearly 200,000 identified species but actual numbers may lie in the millions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550623426303-TVHZ9KOJO7JAXX7FMHWB/085-global-warming.png Facts & Figures - 30% The ocean absorbs approx. 30% of carbon dioxide produced by humans, shielding us from the impacts of global warming. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550623814836-1MTOSXX1FN7ELT5O9NIB/042-danger.png Facts & Figures - 26% We are seeing a 26% rise in ocean acidification since the beginning of the industrial revolution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550623585391-1JBCVS3B0JRJWY1ZVBZY/025-sea-1.png Facts & Figures - 80% 80% of marine litter is from land-based sources. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550623222807-IAXBNK6BNSKXYB158DXV/045-dump-truck.png Facts & Figures - 8,000,000 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the ocean every year and never truly goes away. This is the equivalent of a dump truck of plastic being emptied into the ocean every minute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550623656735-RH5Q0A3ONYSZWG29OG3H/013-shrimp.png Facts & Figures - 3,000,000,000 Over 3 billion people depend on marine eco-systems for their livelihoods and as their main source of food. At the same time 30% of the world’s fish stocks are overexploited and are now below the level at which they can reproduce at sustainable levels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550623695936-E9WO99V9IZLWCYGJTXN9/029-boat-5.png Facts & Figures - 3,000,000,000,000 Globally the market value of marine and coastal resources and industries is estimated at US$3 trillion per year, which is approx. 5% of global GDP. https://bluethefilm.org/cool-australia-resources daily 0.75 2019-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550628907501-J1E8F2FHN5Z3N5Y7RKN0/Years+7-10+Maths.png Cool Australia resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550628907501-J1E8F2FHN5Z3N5Y7RKN0/Years+7-10+Maths.png Cool Australia resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550628914667-4F7ROCRYXIXF3AE1MNPN/Years+9-10+Science.png Cool Australia resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550628908057-LB4WP9WUH4BPBJ3PMMPP/Years+7-8+Science.png Cool Australia resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550628890804-DEYFN009R2M7Z42AMC8Y/Year+7+Geography.png Cool Australia resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550628914974-BZJT117BHLHXSTVEJ03H/Years+9-10+English.png Cool Australia resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550628901802-49UWN7CLW9LRPSNVYVF3/YEars+7-8+English.png Cool Australia resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550628901011-NTUWX9U5XJMADUZDZWIY/Years+5-6+Inquiry.png Cool Australia resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550628897361-ZUO813F3DDEQ5ZKC0ZS8/YEars+3-4+Inquiry.png Cool Australia resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550628894969-G2JL2ZJ5C4CZUL0VO6YN/Years+1-2+Inquiry.png Cool Australia resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550628884249-UOBN51KNCZGP0NXC2X15/Foundation+Inquiry.png Cool Australia resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550628886675-BVF6YGFGUQ53Y5IAP2V6/Early+Learning.png Cool Australia resources https://bluethefilm.org/ocean-guardians daily 0.75 2019-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550722261101-TJD1CDBG6SUXCK6Q4M11/1Q4A1984.jpg Ocean Guardians - Tim Silverwood Environmentalist, plastics campaigner, sustainability advocate and surfer, Tim Silverwood is a self described ordinary guy who somehow found himself at the forefront of a global movement. Travelling the globe with his surf board, Tim was appalled at the state of many or the worlds beaches and premium surf spots. He made a personal decision to clean plastic from his favorite surfing beaches and his desire to inspire others to do the same has led him down an extraordinary path of scientific exploration, advocacy and activism. This path led Tim on to co-found ‘Take 3 - a Clean Beach Initiative’ that asks everyone to simply take 3 pieces of rubbish when they leave the beach, waterway or…anywhere. Take 3 takes the issue of marine plastic pollution into schools, surf lifesaving clubs, and the broader community. In 2016, Tim was invited to Washington DC to attend the 3rd Annual Our Oceans Conference hosted by the then U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. A leading advocate for reducing plastic pollution in the world’s oceans, Tim was thrilled to moderate the panel on marine pollution at this prestigious gathering of world leaders and influencers. In addition to his work with Take 3, Tim is also a co-founder of the Plastic Bag Free NSW campaign, a spokesperson for the Boomerang Alliance campaigning for better recycling and has facilitated over 200 educational seminars to schools, universities, businesses, community groups and government departments since 2011. With a vision to be a leader in significantly reducing plastic pollution in Australia and around the glove, Take 3 has set a goal to remove 3 million pieces of plastic from the ocean over next 3 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550722417218-YLXKDX15ZWP8BZFC5TY1/1Q4A2764.jpg Ocean Guardians - Phillip Mango Phillip Mango grew up on Cape York peninsular and now works as a Senior Nanum Wungthim Land and Sea Ranger. The ‘saltwater country’ he looks after includes some of the most intact coastal and marine habitats in the world. It is one of the last great strongholds for globally threatened turtles and dugongs and supports some the world’s largest mangrove forests, coral reefs and seagrass meadows. It also has one of the most intact traditional Indigenous knowledge-based management regimes on the planet. The Nanum Wungthim Rangers operate a highly successful sea turtle rescue operation and manage one of the regions hotspots for ghost nets. Working with Ghostnets Australia, Phillip leads a team of six hardworking rangers all of whom are passionate about their coastline, rescuing injured marine life and removing ghost nets from their coastline each year. Working closely with Cairns Turtle Rehabilitation Centre, Phillip and the rangers have restored many injured turtles back to health in addition to monitoring and recording data on the breeding, hatching and nest sites of our endangered marine turtles. Collectively they have rescued over 300 entrapped turtles and removed 13,000 nets from the Gulf of Carpentaria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550721659809-MC5MZ9ACHOTA34U6QEQ5/VRT-013+copy.jpg Ocean Guardians - Valerie Taylor Valerie Taylor has an ease and grace in the water that conceals her 82 years of age. Valerie has been diving for over 60 years. She can tell stories about a sea bursting with life, the great schools of fish, sharks as far as the eye can see. These, she says, are now gone. But Valerie remains hopeful. She believes that the ocean will recover, ‘if’ we leave it alone. Famous for her chainmail shark suit and gracing the covers of National Geographic, Valerie and her late husband, shark protection pioneer Ron Taylor, carved out an extraordinary career with their stunning marine documentaries. Ron and Valerie introduced Australia and the world to the wonders of marine life, and more specifically sharks. Starting their ocean careers as competitive spear-fishers, as their fascination with the oceans increased they gave up their spears for cameras. The list of credits and awards for Valerie Taylor is extensive. She and Ron were the first people to film great white sharks without the protection of a cage. They made countless shark films including Blue Water, White Death which caught the attention of American film Director Steven Spielberg and lead to them working on Jaws. The list of film and television credits is exhaustive but it’s the conservation work Valerie has done both in Australia and around the world that is truly impressive. Through her campaigning efforts she prevented oil exploration in Ningaloo Marine Park, overturned mining rights on Coral Sea Islands, won protection for many places on the Great Barrier Reef before it was given World Heritage status and lobbied for the maintenance of sanctuary zones in South Australia. In 1986 Valerie was appointed Rider of the Order of the Golden Ark for marine conservation by his Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. In 2003 Valerie was awarded the Order of Australia for her conservation efforts. Pioneering diver, shark advocate, conservationist, artist, ask Valerie and she’s say “I’m a diver who loves Australia’s oceans.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550722643569-J6GLQIPJC1176SPWZ77P/1Q4A1670.jpg Ocean Guardians - Madison Stewart To others Madison Stewart is a passionate young conservationist, activist and shark advocate but Madison Stewart (aka Shark Girl), self described, is just a person, who refuses to believe sharks will loose their home in their lifetime, at the hands of governments and worldwide neglect. Madi grew up with a life connected to the ocean, living on a yacht on the Great Barrier Reef from the age of 2. Making an agreement with her father to trade in her school fees for an underwater camera, Madi left school when she was 14 to begin home schooling. From that point on, the ocean creatures were her teachers and her classroom was the Great Barrier Reef. Even at her young age, Madi witnessed change. She noticed a decline in the number and type of sharks as a result of ‘legal’ shark fishing with the World Heritage park, with catches equaling 78,000 sharks taken each year. Madi will tell you she has always had an affinity with sharks, large and small. So outraged at the destruction she saw first hand she resolved to do something about it. At the young age of 16, she dedicated her life to the protection and preservation of sharks. As an underwater filmmaker she wants to show the world what is being destroyed. Over 73 million sharks are taken for the shark fin trade alone each year. She uses her camera and her talks as tools to grow public's awareness about the plight of sharks, with the ultimate goal of getting governments around the world to take action to protect sharks. “I want a future with sharks in it. This is the end I am fighting for”, and she’s fighting very hard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550722596679-PF0LI8CJNSRWZZQ2F75Z/IMG_2125.jpg Ocean Guardians - Lucas Handley Lucas spent his childhood barefoot on a farm in the Byron Bay hinterland in Australia. His days were spent exploring the nearby rainforest looking for platypus, pulling yabbies out of the creek, climbing trees and building dens. He’s passionate about preserving the natural world for future generations so they the same magical opportunity to connect with nature that he had. Lucas started exploring the ocean as a young boy, spear fishing, for the family meal. As an eight year old, when other kids were reading Dr Seuss, he was reading fish taxonomy books and knew all the Latin names of the fish he caught. Now as a marine biologist, underwater photographer and freedive instructor, these days Lucas is more likely to be found underwater then above water, diving to depths of 55m on one breath of air. Able to hold is breath for six minutes, the ocean is his spiritual home. Lucas has dedicated his life to promoting a global approach to ecologically sustainable development. An easy going and often laconic boy from the bush, he is a passionate advocate for the future of the oceans. He has assisted campaigns to force inquiries into better management of our precious marine resources as well as assisting in the hands on research. Lucas insists reliable science and a deep understanding of all the people who use it, what they value, what their needs are, is essential to managing this finite resource. One way he is doing this, is through his work with Scuba for Change, and organisation that invests in Pacific Island communities and their sustainable future. He is helping villagers in the Solomon Islands keep their reefs intact by developing their own ecotourism enterprises. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550722345718-L22WM4KNH7THS3YLH65Z/jenn+and+shearwater.jpeg Ocean Guardians - Dr. Jennifer Lavers Growing up on the prairies of Alberta, Canada, Jennifer couldn’t have been further away from the tropical paradise that is Lord Howe Island where she spends so much of her time now working. This paradise holds a dark secret. Here 100% of the shearwater chicks contain plastic they’ve been fed by their parents, foraging in the South Pacific. Jennifer is a marine eco-toxicologist with expertise in seabird ecology, plastic pollution, invasive species management, and fisheries by-catch. The long term monitoring of sea bird colonies has taken her to remote locations around the globe. She has worked for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the US Fish and Wildlife Service in Hawaii and the Canadian Sub-Arctic. Jennifer currently works as a research scientist at the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania. Jennifer is passionate about communicating the issues surrounding marine plastic pollution to the public. She coordinates community environmental activities for school groups and hosts dozens of science workshops and seminars every year. Ultimately Jennifer hopes her research will contribute significantly to the responsible use of plastic products as well as the management of wildlife at risk from plastic ingestion across the globe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550722843582-8SBJRVUVHHDSZPSBXUC4/1Q4A2916.jpg Ocean Guardians - Mark Dia Mark Dia is the Regional Oceans campaigner for Greenpeace South East Asia. Through his work, he has uncovered illegal fishing practices, corruption and labour abuses within the seafood industry, and is fighting hard for global sustainable fishing practices. Mark has a long history with Greenpeace that dates back over 20 years when he climbed onboard the MV Greenpeace as one of the very first Greenpeace volunteers in South East Asia. Inspired by their success in preventing dumping of radioactive wastes at sea, his Greenpeace days started out climbing a crane with a banner that said “Australia Stop Wasting Asia”, on a ship dumping toxic waste off Manila. “It was a way of telling the world what was going on, otherwise no one would know”. That sort of action – peaceful yet powerful, started a career Mark chased with a passionate desire to make change. Now, as the Regional Oceans campaigner for Greenpeace SE Asia, his key focus is on preventing unsustainable fishing. He and his team have recently audited the tuna canneries of Indonesia and the Philippines – tracing the supply chain between fishing fleets and the product sold to consumers. It’s a difficult, often dangerous task attempting to stop ‘fish laundering’, where illegal seafood is co-mingled with legal caught fish – hiding the true scale of the black market. 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There are no longer ‘too many fish in the sea’. Fish populations of some key species have been reduced to only 10% of what they were in the 1950s. The scale of the modern fishing industry has become enormous. Nets large enough to haul a dozen 747 aeroplanes, trawl behind factory fishing vessels, scooping up anything in their path. A huge amount of by-catch (unwanted species such as endangered sharks, turtles and dolphins) are thrown back into the sea – dying or dead. Industrial-scale methods used to catch the fish are destroying habitats and devastating marine life. Bottom trawlers rake the sea for scallops and prawns, leaving wide swaths of seabed desolate as deserts. Long lines, hundreds of kilometres in length and baited with thousands of hooks swing enticingly, indiscriminately ensnaring any kind of wildlife. Illegal fishing vessels are operating all over the world, fishing in prohibited territories. The area of seabed trawled by the world's fishing fleet is 150 times the area of forests cut down every year. Changes can be made to improve conditions. People who eat seafood can demand sustainable fish. Vessels can implement smart fishing practices that eliminate by-catch, waste and overfishing. Governments can reduce harmful subsidies and crack down on unregulated fishing. 1/5 fish are caught illegally and 80% of the world's fish stocks are already fully exploited. ‘Sustainable seafood' is seafood which reaches our plates with minimal impact on fish populations and the marine environment. It can be wild-caught or farmed in aquaculture. But very few fisheries are actually certified as sustainable throughout the world. Image credit: Alex Hofford / Greenpeace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550634462198-PG79CF2UKC7R1C5GP7YO/Untitled_1.482.1-Edit-tall.png Explore the Issues - Plastic Pollution. Plastic pollution is the juggernaut of ocean environmental disasters. It sweeps down sewers, storm water drains, falls from garbage trucks or trash cans, carries in the breeze to the sea where it clogs our waterways, damages ecosystems, entangles our marine life, poisons animals and enters the food chain. Humans are polluting the seas at an alarming rate with 8 million tons of plastic being dumped in the ocean every year. This is the equivalent to a dump truck of plastic every minute. In three decades, it's been predicted there will be more plastic in the sea than fish. As plastics break down, it makes its way to the very base of the food chain. Plankton, the smallest of all marine creatures, suck in water to feed and particles of polystyrene accumulate in their tissues. Plankton, full of plastic, is then eaten by larger and larger creatures, until it’s sitting on our dinner plate. Plastic kills hundreds of thousands of sea creatures every year. Animals eat plastic or get trapped and strangled by plastic. Turtles and dolphins confuse plastic bags for jellyfish; plastic pellets look like floating fish eggs and kill fish; filter feeders such as lugworms and mussels gobble up microplastic particles on the seabed. Even corals are consuming plastic. Only 1% of plastic is on the oceans surface. Microplastics act like sponges sucking up toxic chemicals in the ocean. Plastic pellets collected from Japanese coastal waters had toxin concentrations up to a million times that found in the surrounding seawater. How can we stop? We need to reduce, reuse, recycle. We don’t understand the full impact of microplastics on marine ecosystems and the potential human health risks yet. But early research suggests plastics may disrupt endocrine function, which may lead to cancers, birth defects, immune system suppression and developmental problems in children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550632923879-HLDETTWX0HLOPU0ZH39P/jen-milius-564956-unsplash.jpg Explore the Issues - Destruction of Habitats. We have national parks on land, it’s time our ocean and marine life receive the same respect. Areas where sea creatures and their homes are protected from extractive industries, such as fishing and oil and gas exploration, are vital for ocean health. Only 5% of the ocean surface is classified as Marine Park, despite scientists believing 30% is necessary. It is proven that sanctuary zones encourage recovery of marine life – Coral Trout numbers increased by 60% in two years after the sanctuary zones were expanded on the Great Barrier Reef in 2004. A network of global marine parks would reduce stress on marine ecosystems and allow the whole of the ocean to bounce back. Like green lungs, these sanctuaries filter pollutants and act as a breeding ground for marine life stretching across the world. They enable the ocean to cope with the pressures already facing her, like insurance policies for damage that has occurred and will occur in other parts of her waters, creating a healthier ocean and a healthier planet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550634669553-RWV0SWHNKS2HUE2MNSDN/Untitled_1.625.1-Edit-tall.png Explore the Issues - Ocean Change. The ocean plays a major role in regulating the Earth’s climate. It produces half the oxygen we breathe and absorbs vast amounts of carbon dioxide and excess heat from the atmosphere. And just as climate change climate is effecting our land, climate change is effecting our oceans. Oceans are becoming warmer, sea levels are rising and the increase in carbon dioxide has started a process of acidification in our ocean. The blue truth is, the process the ocean uses to protect us (absorbing carbon dioxide and heat) is destroying it. For decades, the ocean has been acting as a buffer, soaking in the carbon dioxide dumped into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. It has absorbed most of the extra heat produced by elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Ocean heat not only determines sea surface temperature, but also affects sea level and currents. It affects flooding, which becomes more frequent as sea levels rise. Changes in sea temperature affect habitats and the behaviour of marine life as they are forced to adapt or die. Safe levels of CO2 in the atmosphere is considered to be 350 parts per million (ppm) but in September 2016 we reached 400 ppm Blue carbon is carbon captured by oceans and coastal ecosystems. Ocean plants take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen, just like land plants, but they are even more effective. Ocean vegetation can absorb four times more carbon than forests. Blue carbon sinks - mangroves, saltmarshes, seagrasses and estuaries - capture 1 billion metric tons of carbon every year. If not for the ocean, we’d be choking on our own CO2. Yet we are destroying its ability to help us combat these ever increasing CO2 levels by degrading wetland ecosystems, prioritising instead urban expansion and coastal development. This will accelerate climate change. Unsustainable infrastructure (such as port expansion) in marine sensitive areas creates the double whammy- increasing CO2 levels by pumping fossil fuels into the air and destroying the ecosystems which could absorb it. Big business is giving us the disease and denying us the cure. Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet and one of the most useful. They shelter coastlines from waves and storms, they provide homes for one quarter of the world’s sealife and are breeding grounds and nurseries for many more. The reef provides nitrogen and nutrients for the food chain and assists in carbon and nitrogen fixing. To date, we have lost 27% of the world’s coral reefs. If present rates of degradation continue, it may be too warm for coral reefs to exist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550633646000-WYTMNZ74ALXZJWQBK2AN/1Q4A1848.jpg Explore the Issues - Declining Marine Life. In the last forty years half of all marine life has disappeared. Industrial scale fishing can be blamed for the massive quantities of fish being plundered from the ocean but we are responsible for the destruction of the marine habitats. We have created ocean pollution, coastal development and the greenhouse gas emissions which increase water temperatures and promote acidification, destroying coral reefs where one quarter of marine life live. One third of the world's open ocean sharks are threatened with extinction. Human behaviour and cultural customs are also putting species at risk. Just like the Ivory trade – many species are subject to poaching and exploitation through international wildlife trade. Tortoise shell is still sold in many Pacific island communities for tourism trinkets. Killing sharks for their fins is still rampant in parts of the world. Manta Rays are killed for their gills, which are sold as a health tonic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550634852116-MFVAUI2W5YET1SRA4L04/1Q4A2826.jpg Explore the Issues - So what should I eat? It would be preferable to stop eating all seafood together! If you want to help, choose small fast-growing sustainable species. Avoid top predators, such as swordfish, sharks and tuna. These animals can accumulate unhealthy levels of mercury, but are also slow growing and reproduce less often, meaning fish are slower to reproduce. Know what you're eating. Endeavour to find out: + WHERE is it from? + WHAT species is it? + HOW was it caught? SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD GUIDES Australia: Check out the Australian Marine Conservation Society Sustainable Seafood Guide and make informed seafood choices. The guide gives you an insight into the sustainability of around 90 seafood species commonly found at our fishmongers supermarkets, fish and chip shops and restaurants. It includes assessments of Australian and imported fish species. You can find important information about Australia's seafood industry, seafood and your health, seafood labelling, some of the common seafood myths and much more. International Seafood Guides: UK: Good Fish Guide USA: Seafood Watch Canada: SeaChoice France: Mr Good Fish (available in Français, English and Español) Greenpeace’s Canned Tuna Guides: Asia-Pacific: Change Your Tuna USA: North American Tuna Guide Visit here for a list of other country guides from Greenpeace. These lists are updated yearly so keep checking back! https://bluethefilm.org/sdg14 daily 0.75 2019-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1537239812663-2OIU5ZZ8ZSKLVMLTLWJH/E_SDG_logo_No+UN+Emblem_horizontal_rgb.png SDG14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550620224134-1FYPZYF9JN8GNS5XBPJ9/SDG14+Goals.jpg SDG14 https://bluethefilm.org/our-team daily 0.75 2019-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550726384831-POD8YE42P20SG7U6Y7CG/sarah-beard.png Our Team - Sarah Beard PRODUCER / IMPACT PRODUCER Sarah has over 20 year’s experience delivering content to commercial clients, broadcasters and for feature release. She has worked across a broad spectrum of projects ranging from, The Matrix trilogies, James Cameron’s documentary Voyage to the Bottom of the Earth and the award winning Australians at War. As Visual FX producer at Animal Logic she worked on projects such as George Millers Happy Feet and produced animation content for Time Warner’s Cartoon Network. In 2012, Sarah joined Northern Pictures and focused her work on delivering Natural History series to international networks. As a passionate ocean conservation advocate, marine themed stories have always been Sarah's passion including; The Adventures of the Quest series, Island Life, Great White Matrix and Saltwater Heroes. In addition to her film work Sarah has been working as an outreach producer and Director on the board for Take 3 For The Sea, a grass roots organization giving a global voice on marine plastic pollution. Through her outreach work teaching kids in surf life saving clubs about caring for their ocean, Sarah has presented to over 3000 nippers and their parents around the country over the past three years. She has facilitated community beach clean ups clearing over ten tonnes of plastic pollution from our coastline. Working on Blue has been the ultimate project for Sarah, combining her extensive marine based film work and her not for profit ocean advocacy work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550726936475-P5DQD74K62WS1QTL2MEV/Vanessa+Milton.jpg Our Team - Vanessa Milton EDITOR Vanessa is a documentary editor who is passionate about telling true stories that inspire audiences to pause and take a closer look at the world we inhabit and the people we often look past. She has worked on documentaries for the big screen, TV, web and radio for the last 15 years and has been fortunate to work alongside some of Australia’s most respected non-fiction filmmakers. She has won the Australian Film Institute award for Best Editing for her feature documentary work. Vanessa says, “For so many of us, the ocean is the last great wild space we have at our doorstep. I have been lucky to be able to explore some of our beautiful coastline in a small yacht, and I now live in a small town on the NSW far south coast where I see first hand the way ocean change is affecting the lives and livelihoods of those who live by the sea”. “The challenge with Blue was to keep the viewer engaged emotionally while also gripping them on a rational level. Ultimately, I feel that the greatest strength of Blue lies in the spirit of the activists we follow in the film. I hope that their determination to fight for the ocean, and not turn away from the devastation they witness every day, will leave the audience with a sense of their own empowerment, and the will to act.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550726683435-AP9HI86IDSL81ON28I7B/jody-muston.jpg Our Team - Jody Muston DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY After working her way through the ranks of the camera department and cutting her teeth shooting countless shorts and music videos, Jody has emerged as one of Australia’s most exciting young DOPs whose work encompasses television, film and documentaries. Her first feature film One Eyed Girl won the prestigious ‘Dark Matters’ award at the Austin Film Festival. Through her work on The Turning (Berlin Film Festival) she participated in the prestigious Berlin Talent Program in 2014. Blue was a different kind of project for Jody, though it played to the strengths of her work, which is known as darkly atmospheric. She says, “It's always the story first that gets my creative mind ignited to the possibilities for the visual storytelling of a particular project. With Blue it was the promise of telling the story of the oceans that immediately made me excited about being a part of the film. As a diver I have seen many of the wonders of the ocean's depths over the years, however when I read the script for Blue I was presented with a lyrical opportunity to represent the many different challenges of our oceans in a distinct and beautiful way. We found a gentle observed approach that strayed from the traditional wildlife style allowed us to impart a tone of reflection throughout the film. Some sequences feeling more like a piece of dramatic narrative between our characters and the oceans, than documentary. For me the film is a calling for change but with a breath of fresh air to come closer, look deeper”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550726962593-3ADCTB4Z5ZF7M5JB4YL5/Ash+Greig+Gibson.jpg Our Team - Ash Greig Gibson COMPOSER Ash has composed the music to over 110 hours of TV documentaries and series including Who Do You Think You Are, The War That Changed Us, Jandamarra’s War, Frackman, Desert War, and Yagan), over 50 plays (recently Picnic At Hanging Rock and Angels in America) and 4 features. Ash has won 6 W.A. Screen Awards, in 2007 won an APRA/Australian Guild of Screen Composers Award for Best Music for a Short Film (Iron Bird) and has garnered 9 other nominations at those awards. In 2014 Ash was part of the team that won an AACTA Award for Best Sound for a Documentary for Desert War, and has two other AACTA nominations. Ash was also composer for the acclaimed 2017 Perth International Arts Festival opening event, Boorna Waanginy: The Trees Speak. Ash says, “The sheer beauty of Blue as a work of cinematography and the importance and power of its message were both inspiring and intimidating to work with. It was tempting to compose to grandeur and the darkness of the film, but it was important to give the audience the room to feel their own emotions in relation to what they were experiencing. This meant finding a subtle balance of instrumentation and tempo to support the images and enhance the broad yet shifting pace and moods”. “Scores like this are always the most challenging, as a single chord change or instrument can push it too hard in a certain direction. In the end, the music for Blue doesn’t overwhelm the power of the story, but instead negotiates the moods and shifts in pace and place with restrained sensitivity”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550726302220-Q8BT8I18SZJBXNI8P8YD/BLUE+-+Director+Karina+Holden.jpg Our Team - Karina Holden DIRECTOR / PRODUCER Growing up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Karina has spent her life in saltwater. Passionate about protecting nature, she studied science at Sydney University and then completed a Postgraduate degree in Conservation Biology from University of Queensland. Fieldwork led her to work on the Great Barrier Reef, the Simpson Desert and the wet tropics of the Northern Australia. At the age of 23, Karina joined the Natural History Unit of the ABC where she worked for the next 7 years on blue chip wildlife documentaries as a researcher and eventually as a producer. Next, her spirit of adventure led her to living in Vietnam and Thailand for several years, where she made films in the Asian region for National Geographic and Discovery Channel. Returning to Australia, Karina continued making documentaries in many genres including wildlife, science and anthropology. This allowed her to travel to remote regions and tell unique stories of nature from tribal perspectives. With her 6 month old son, she spent time living with the Samburu tribe in Northern Kenya and gained a deeper insight into the importance of connection to land. In 2010, Karina took the job of commissioning editor of science and natural history at ABC TV. She over saw the production of 150 hours of factual content, before the desk job became wearisome and the wilderness called her back. Her role as Head of Factual at Northern Pictures has allowed her to oversee content creation for broadcast series, as well as director her own films. Karina has over 200 articles in print in nature magazines and is a passionate ambassador of conservation work in Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1550726643933-UIKBI6V19KM4CPKN69N2/jon-shaw.jpg Our Team - Jon Shaw UNDERWATER CINEMATOGRAPHER Emmy nominated cinematographer Jon Shaw, has had a passion for the ocean and environment from an early age. From his beginnings as a marine biologist (University of Plymouth) and commercial diver, Jon has developed an enviable career travelling the world to film astonishing wildlife both above and below the ocean’s surface. Jon was drawn to working on the Northern Pictures documentary Blue by his passion for arresting the perils that face the ongoing sustainability of the world’s oceans. “Coral bleaching, dwindling shark numbers and the outcome of today’s overuse and disposal of plastics in our environment are issues I witness repeatedly through my work. Its been great to be a part of production that’s taking those issues to the people through film”, Jon Shaw said. Jon’s love for using the most advanced filming technology allows the audience a seemingly real-life glance into the environments he captures on film. https://bluethefilm.org/blue-millenials daily 0.75 2019-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1553484598234-RJYVK8PT4NL1UVQX9XGJ/SOAlogofinal.png BLUE Millenials https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55fba586e4b0ee63468b8451/1553484526660-5KZB1IIM9ER89MIRB8KP/leadershipProgram_Collage3-1.jpg BLUE Millenials