Vicki is the ocean mind behind Colorado Ocean Coalition and its successful “Making Waves” Ocean Symposium that takes place in the rocky mountain high city of Boulder. Why would one even consider creating a mountain based ocean centered festival? Ocean Minds got the answer in a Skype fueled interview full of laughs [...]
“You’ve never seen images like this before…it deserves to be seen and felt on the big screen.” – Robert Redford Talk about how “Chasing Ice” came to you as a film. How did you get involved? I was connected to James Balog through a good mutual friend, and we met [...]
MacGillivray Freeman Films, IMAX Filmed Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that the IMAX® 3D film, To The Arctic, has crossed the $10 million benchmark at the worldwide box office – highlighting its universal appeal and ongoing success with IMAX® audiences. The film debuted on April 20, 2012 in [...]
Filmmakers Raise Money For Unique Human-Dolphin Collaboration “Dolphin Dreams” will be a short film depicting a unique and extraordinary collaboration between two human dancers and a pod of wild Atlantic Spotted dolphins. To finish the movie and release it, Chisa Hidaka MD (director) and Benjamin Harley (producer) have launched a [...]
Over 20 internationally renowned ocean heroes will gather in Boulder, CO, for the Colorado Ocean Coalition (COCO)’s Making WAVES 2012 weekend on October 20 – 21, 2012. The annual event, now in its second year, brings together prominent ocean scientists, activists, educators, youth, and artists with our growing “Inland Ocean [...]
The first time I went diving at night and experienced Bioluminescence in the californian channel islands, I could not stop but smile underwater. Moving an arm or kick my fins would generate so much light easily making Tinkebell jealous, had I been in Neverland. One could argue, I was. Forget [...]
Being here at the Blue Ocean Film Festival this year is magical. Magical because you (the lucky Blue attendee) walk around the Portola Hotel,where the event takes place in Monterey and you can see Ocean Minds as far as the eye can see. Yesterday I ran into acclaimed cinematographer Bob [...]
Dr. David Guggenheim known as Ocean Doctor presented his 60 min/Anderson Cooper special on the Cuban Reef known as the Gardens of the Queen. The whole point of his adventure diving on this unique pristine coral reef in Cuba is to show the importance of MPA’s and use such reef as [...]
At the movie premiere of his latest film “My Father The Captain” at the Blue Ocean Film Festival, Jean-Michel got teary eyed for a moment mentioning a quote from “Falco” (Albert Falco, Calypso Captain and the right hand of Jacques Yves Cousteau) about how important friendship is on this earth. “Falco left [...]
The BLUE Ocean Film Festival & Conservation Summit is coming to Monterey September 24-30th. Featuring international films, conservation talks by the best minds in ocean exploration, scientists, manned submersibles, a film industry conference, free community events, parties and more, there is something for every age and every price range. As [...]
