The BLUE Ocean Film Festival has announced its roster of more than 100 films and programs that will be screened during this year’s edition, taking place from September 24-30 in Monterey, California.
The finalists for this year’s film competition, initially announced during an online Google+ Hangout event on Sunday, were chosen from over 300 entries. Winners in each category will be announced at the BLUE Carpet awards ceremony taking place during the festival, on September 28, at Monterey’s Golden State Theater.
Finalists in assorted categories include:
3D
Alien Deep: Fires of Creation
Ocean Voyagers 3D
Sea Rex 3D
Universe of the Ocean
BROADCAST
60 Minutes: The Gardens of the Queen
Alien Deep: Inner vs Outer Space
Great Barrier Reef: Nature’s Miracle
Jaws Comes Home
My Father, The Captain: Jacques Yves Cousteau
Ocean Giants
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Planet Ocean
Great Barrier Reef: Nature’s Miracle
Ragged Tooth
Ocean Giants
Light the Ocean
(Honorable Mentions: Alien Deep: It’s Alive, Alien Deep: Fires of Creation, Hot Tuna, Nature’s Dive Bomber, Untamed Americas: Coast)
EXPLORATION AND ADVENTURE
Alien Deep: Inner vs Outer Space
Deep Sea Under the Poles
DinoFish
Hunt for the Giant Squid
Whale Wars
(Honorable Mentions: Alien Deep: Fires of Creation, Alien Deep: It’s Alive, Alien Deep: Wrecks of the Abyss, Project Shiphunt)
PRESENTER-LEAD
Alien Deep: Fires of Creation
Great Barrier Reef: Nature’s Miracle
Jonathan Bird’s Blue World: Antarctica
Ocean Stories with Howard & Michele Hall
Universe of the Ocean
THEATRICAL DOCUMENTARY
Otter 501
Pioneers of the Deep
Sea Rex 3D: Journey to a Prehistoric World
The Island President
The Last Reef
(Honorable Mentions: A Fall From Freedom, Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson, Garden in the Sea, Manufacturing Stoke, Ride a Wave: Live and Love It Up!, The Coral Eden)
A full list of finalists is available here.
The festival is held every two years, and honors the best in ocean filmmaking in addition to hosting a conference component. This year, Lifetime Achievement Awards will be bestowed upon filmmaker James Cameron and ocean explorer Captain Don Walsh, while the 2012 Sylvia Earle Award will honor the late underwater cinematographer Mike deGruy, who died earlier this year in a tragic helicopter accident on Australia’s south coast.
For more information regarding the BLUE Ocean film Festival and conference, click here.