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Director: Rob Stewart
Starring: Rob Stewart, Paul Watson, Patrick Moore, Erich Ritter
First time filmmaker Rob Stewart, has made a breathtaking, unforgettable and important documentary. Not bad for his first feature. Take marvelous underwater photography, amazing passion and a thrilling story and you have a can’t miss feature that was a darling of the film festival circuit. It won’t be what you expect.
Rob Stewart is a shark-loving biologist and underwater photographer who starts out discussing sharks’ importance to the planet, our misconceptions about them and their history which pre-dates dinosaurs. Stewart’s passion for sharks, and their protection, brings him to join with Paul Watson (www.seashepherd.org) on an expedition to battle illegal shark fishing off the coast of Guatemala. What results is conflicts with poachers and organized crime on top of government corruption and double cross. This is one of the most amazing stories that a documentary has ever told and yet it is still intertwined with beauty and horror.
Rob Stewart and Paul Watson are my newest heroes. Their courage and commitment alone, makes Sharkwater worth viewing. Viewers with a social conscience and ecological concerns shouldn’t miss this one and viewers who enjoy tense real life adventures won’t want to miss it. Like the trailer says, “It’s part Jacques Cousteau and part Michael Moore”.
