Sharkwater
Movie details
For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring sharks began as an underwater adventure. What it turned into was a beautiful and dangerous life journey into the balance of life on earth. Filmed in visually stunning, high definition video, Sharkwater takes you into the most shark rich waters of the world, exposing the exploitation and corruption surrounding the world's shark populations in the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
Director Rob Stewart
Stars Rob Stewart, Paul Watson
Contains scenes of animal cruelty, Infrequent coarse language
Our review
What starts as a documentary about sharks turns into a movie straight from the mind of a Hollywood executive, complete with illegal fishing practices, a shark mafia, one man's fight to save a species and a flesh-eating disease.
As director Rob Stewart says, sharks are nowhere near as cute as seals, nor do they have the same mass appeal as whales, so they're largely ignored by humans.
But not by Stewart. He has been enamoured with sharks since he first encountered one while free diving in the Cayman Islands when he was eight. With this film he wants to show sharks as they really are - and not the man-eating monsters of the deep they are often portrayed as.
Stewart wanted "Sharkwater" to be about the beauty and essence of sharks, but it turns into much more. With evidence of corruption and exploitation that runs rampant in places such as Costa Rica, Stewart and his team uncovered illegal practices of "finning" - cutting the fins off a shark before throwing it back in the water - and the multimillion dollar industry behind it.
"Sharkwater" is a visually stunning film with beautiful underwater shots and tense human drama thrown into the mix. This movie will hopefully do for sharks what "An Inconvenient Truth" did for global warming.
8/10
Patrick Tangye
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