Volume 7 (2020)
The skipper Tracy Edwards has a big dream but no crew and no boat – tiny problems compared to the chilly head wind and open machismo the 26-year-old Englishwoman is met with by the male dominated sailing scene of the 1980s.
On September 2nd, 1989 time is up: Tracy Edwards enters the prestigious Whitbread Round the World Race with her boat Maiden and history’s first all-female crew. The ridicule by the press and their opponents soon turns into disbelief as Edwards wins the second leg of the race in her class. Maiden tells the singular story of a pioneering voyage – 33,000 nautical miles towards equality.
| Length: | 93 min |
| Direction: | Alex Holmes |
| With: | Tracy Edwards MBE, Jo Gooding |
| Production: | 2018, New Black Films |
„In the ocean I can just be me,“ says Bethany Hamilton. Those familiar with her story will find this remark deeply ironic – simply because the ocean stood to rob her of everything, when Hamilton was just 13 years old. A budding talent on the Hawaiian surf scene, Hamilton is attacked by a tiger shark, instantaneously losing her left arm. What would have been the end of a promising career in surfing for anybody else, marks the starting point of Bethany Hamilton’s tour de force in the sport she so loves.
Unstoppable is the story of an ocean lover, who defies the card life has dealt her with exceptional will power and athletic prowess, turning herself into one of the most celebrated and prolific female surfers on the planet.
| Length: | 33 min |
| Direction: | Aaron Lieber |
| With: | Bethany Hamilton |
| Production: | 2019, USA, Lieber Films in association with Corkcicle & Ripcurl |
A guy like Mike deGruy had to be born in a place like Mobile, Alabama. Here, where five rivers meet the ocean, his fascination for water and all life within it became obvious at an early age – as did his unbridled energy and will to explore. After finishing a degree in marine biology Mike deGruy found a camera or rather it found him, sending him on his life’s trajectory of ocean exploration and education. He became one of the most prolific and skilled ocean cinematographers und a fierce advocate for ocean protection.
Diving Deep is not only a tribute to his life but also a celebration of the principal emotion he exuded and still elicits in all his work – a sense of wonder.
| Direction: | Mimi Armstrong deGruy |
| With: | Mike deGruy, James Cameron, David Attenborough |
| Production: | 2019, USA, The Film Crew inc |
