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Angel Azul

Casting For a New Generation.

Environment – Kensington, California, United States
Indiegogo Partner Since 2011
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Angel Azul is a sponsored project of the International Documentary Association.

Who We Are & What We're Doing

My name is Marcelina Cravat and I am directing an important documentary film called Angel Azul that addresses the serious threats currently facing the world's coral reefs with particular focus on the Mesoamerican Reef located off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. Producing this film are Kath Delaney and Erik Johnson. The film follows the inspired work of eco/sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor who casts cement statues from live human models and installs them on the ocean floor in an underwater museum which over time grows into coral reefs! These artificial reefs serve many functions. They aggregrate fish, provide homes for other forms of marine life, provide a substrate for coral, act as a barometer for pollution in the surrounding water and help provide a reprieve for the natural reefs that are struggling from over use. The very distinguished Peter Coyote will be narrating our film! We are still pinching ourselves over that one! 

Why We Are Doing This

Because the situation is so dire, and because there is such a short window of time to try and save one of the ocean's most important and dying ecosystems, we are intent on promoting awareness  and inspiration for individuals to act. Information will be delivered through the expertise of scientitsts and professionals in the field of marine conservation. This includes the director of the Ecological Center in Akumal, Paul Sanchez-Navarro who works tirelessly to protect the precious Akumal Bay where sea turtles have been coming since forever to lay their eggs, and marine biologist Dr. Thomas Goreau, President of the Global Coral Reef Alliance. The many causes effecting the die-off of the reefs at such startling rates and solutions that could reverse this will be explored in our film. 

Where We Are

Our hauntingly beautiful underwater footage was shot by Mario Navarro and Jason deCaires Taylor himself! Our culturally rich and personal on land filming was shot by myself and Mario Navarro mostly in fishing villages and small towns along the Mayan Riviera. Our good friends at Sigma have supplied us with great quality lenses to do the job and they have! With just one production trip remaining, we are well underway with post production. This is currently the focus of our fundraising efforts as the tasks are numerous and depend on the talent and skills of a variety of professionals. From music to graphics, sound design to color correction, we are pushing ahead to complete what we've started! We cannot wait to bring it to you!

Tokens of Thanks

Tokens of thanks will be offerred for donations of any size. We are very grateful for monetary contributions to pay for the completion of Angel Azul and present it to viewers around the world, but we are also grateful for spreading the word. This means sharing the project with friends that might not have occasion to learn about it, and to also give thought to ways that we as individuals could reduce our carbon footprint so that we protect the precious resources that are so strained and so necessary to our existence.

 

 

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