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Celebrate the Sea is organise by OceanNEnvironment Australia in association with the World Festival of Underwater Pictures

 

 

FESTIVAL PROGRAMME  2011

  CTS 2011 PROGRAM          
  23-Sep 23-Sep 24-Sep 24-Sep 25-Sep 25-Sep
    Ocean Theatre Tulip Room Ocean Theatre Tulip Room Ocean Theatre
10:00     Key Presentation: Mark Erdmann PhD: “Extreme Biodiversity: In search of eastern Indonesia’s marine biodiversity epicenter” Film in Competition: The Manta Project
Gisela Kaufman, Australia


 
Sea Pulse – Dustin MacDonald
Two Bizarre Fish Tales
Synthetic Sea 2010 w Capt Moore.
Indonesian Reef Protection (in Bahasa)
Plastic to light crude oil (a concept for remote villages)
Films in competition Shark Culture 
333 Productions, USA
A World of Diversity &
Swimming with Giants 
Scott Portelli, Australia
Run -
Glen Percy, Australia
UndawaraWater 
Stuart Ireland, Australia
 
11:00 Registration Open Sintesa Peninsula Ballroom Foyer   Forum:                          
*Reclaiming the Sea
Land Reclamation - is this really necessary? Angelique Batuna, Prof Chou Loke Ming, Mathieu Meur, Joseph Moreira
Oceans
SPECIAL PUBLIC PRIZE
Jacques PERRIN, Jacques CLUZAUD, Galatée films [France]
Key Presentation: Prof Chou Loke Ming PhD -"Climate change impacts on Southeast Asia's marine biodiversity". Oceans
SPECIAL PUBLIC PRIZE
Jacques PERRIN, Jacques CLUZAUD, Galatée films [France]
12:00 Shoot Out Submission- CTS regisrtration desk   FORUM: Ocean Acidification
What are the implications? More and more bleaching of coral reefs take place worldwide and are thought to be a result of global warming. Prof Chou Loke Ming, Mark Erdman Phd
Premiere of Festival:Swimming with Great White of Guadalupe
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC PRIZE Palm' Dor
Christian PETRON
 
 Forum: Garbage in the Ocean
How has garbage affect life in the sea? Prof Chou Loke Ming, Emory Kristof, Angelique Batuna, Howard Hall 
Premiere of Festival:Swimming with Great White of Guadalupe
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC PRIZE Palm' Dor
Christian PETRON
 
13:00 LUNCH   “Into the Abyss” (this National Geographic documentary is the product of the Inner Space Speciation Project conducted in the Celebes Seas. Expedition leader Emory Kristof led a team of explorers to explore the open sea to the deep sea – the first vertical survey from surface to beyond 2.5km.   to beyond 2.5km.   LUNCH  “Into the Abyss” (this National Geographic documentary is the product of the Inner Space Speciation Project conducted in the Celebes Seas. Expedition leader Emory Kristof led a team of explorers to explore the open sea to the deep sea – the first vertical survey from surface to beyond 2.5km.   LUNCH   “Into the Abyss” (this National Geographic documentary is the product of the Inner Space Speciation Project conducted in the Celebes Seas. Expedition leader Emory Kristof led a team of explorers to explore the open sea to the deep sea – the first vertical survey from surface to beyond 2.5km.  
14:00 Shoot Out Submission- CTS regisrtration desk My Fortresses -  PALME D'ARGENT
à  José LACHAT [Suisse]

Insatiable & Drole Histoire
PALME D'ARGENT
à  José LACHAT [Suisse]

Free Fall
PRIX DE L'INSOLITE
à  Guillaume NERY, Julie GAUTIER, BlueNery [France]

 
FORUM - Big Animals in Captivity should facilities like Ocean Park, Sea World, Resort World – Marine Life Park exist? Mark Erdman PhD, Michael AW, Michelle Hall, Steve Jones, Evonne Ong Films in Competition Moonlight Poems - Élodie Turpi (Canada)
The Cycle of Life
Gino Rosiers (Belgium)
One with Nature"        ilse De Gendt (Belgium)
 
Key Presentation: Michael AW; "Evolution,  the journey of a  photographer; from  films to CPU; from taking pictures to books, journalistm to conservation.  In Retrospect. Photography session Film in Competition - East Scheldt
Edward Snijders, Belgium
 
15:00 Exhibition Hall Open La Nuit des Mantas
PRIX DU DOCUMENTAIRE  ANIMALIER
à  René HEUZEY, Yukimi YAMAMOTO, Pedro  ALEDO, Label Bleu Vidéo,  [France]

 
The Essentials of  Digital Underwater Photography; Success Techniques by Mathieu Meur Finalists - Portfolio, Trio portfolio in competition and Most Influential Shoot Out Entries Key Presentation - Michelle Hall & Howard Hall: MAKING “UNDER THE SEA 3D” IN 70MM IMAX Film Group A winner -Award of Excellence
16:00 Exhibition Hall Open Oceans
SPECIAL PUBLIC PRIZE
Jacques PERRIN, Jacques CLUZAUD, Galatée films [France]

 
Seascapes and Vistas : techniques and approaches for wide angle - underwater photography session by Steve Jones La Nuit des Mantas
PRIX DU DOCUMENTAIRE  ANIMALIER
à  René HEUZEY, Yukimi YAMAMOTO, Pedro  ALEDO, Label Bleu Vidéo,  [France]

 
CLOSED Key Presentation by Emory Kristof: The Search for the TITANIC - Next April 14, 2012 will be the 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the TITANIC.  Over that 100 year…. 
17:00 Exhibition Hall Open Happy Hour Happy Hour Happy Hour Happy Hour Happy Hour
18:30   Meet & Greet Party - hosted by Ocean Geographic   Welcome  & Awards Ceremony - hosted by Governor of North Sulawesi   GALA DINNER and Premiere Awards Ceremony - hosted by Mayor of Manado
    Legend Presentations Film Festival Presentations Film Festival
  24 Sep 10:30 - 14:00: Children Art Competition Final at the CTS Exhibition Hall
  25 Sep Award Ceremony Special Presentation By Emory Kristof : The InnerSpace Speciation Project:                                       Some of the greatest SCUBA diving in the world is at the doorstep of Manado. The Coral Triangle has more different kinds of marine animals than anyplace else on Earth.  In 2007 a group of scientist, filmmakers and divers set out to make a vertical inventory of the marine life in the Coral Triangle.  We boarded a 200-foot Philippine Oceanographic ship and set sail for the Northern Celebes Sea.  Here we did blue water SCUBA collecting and photography, and deep-water trawling.  But our main objective was to use an Oceaneering ROV down to 10,000 feet to look for never-before seen animals.  Filmmaker Adam Geiger wrote and edited the film for the Geographic, and supplied many strange shallow water animals from other parts of the Coral Triangle from his videos made on previous trips.  The expedition and film was a solid success for a project done on a television budget, but it supplies a blue print for an expanded 3-D IMAX film.
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

10th Celebrate the Sea North Sulawesi   23-25 September 2011

Acclaimed film maker of IMAX 3D films Howard & Michelle Hall to attend CELEBRATE THE SEA Festival North Sulawesi 23-25 September 2011

 The 10th Celebrate the Sea Festival 2010 is once again gearing up to be the most exciting and inspiring festival of the sea in the Asia Pacific. Howard & Michelle Hall, world renowned film makers for their astonishing IMAX 3D productions of  Deep Sea and Coral Reef Adventure, will be attending the September festival to share their adventures along with National Geographic’s deep-sea explorer Emory Kristof, acclaimed as among the first to discover the wreck of the Titanic.  Attendees can expect very extraordinary presentations from a host of celebrated underwater luminaries including Dr Mark Erdmann, Leandro Blanco, Eric Bettens, Amanda Cotton, Steve Jones, Michael AW, Mathieu Meur, William Macdonald and Indonesia’s very own award-winning underwater photographer Ronny Rengkung.

With the association of the World Festival of Underwater Pictures,  Le Festival Mondial de l'Image Sous-Marine - Marseille – now in its 37th year, Celebrate the Sea is seen as the most important underwater film and photographic event in the world outside of Europe.

 One of the highlights of Celebrate the Sea is the 4-day photographic SOS ‘shoot out’ competition from 19-23 September; photographers from the world over are invited to North Sulawesi to compete for the prestigious “Most Influential Shoot Out Underwater Photographer of the Year award” with cash prize and holiday prize of USD5000 value.* The festival’s international underwater imagery competition also calls for entries from photographers and film makers to compete in the seven categories; Black and White print, Colour Print, Portfolio of Festival, Trio, Slide Shows, short video and feature length documentary.

 The Celebrate the Sea weekend at the scenic Sintesa Peninsula Hotel Manado shall be jam packed with seminars on ocean conservation, climate change, underwater photographic workshops, a photographic exhibition and an international underwater film festival featuring winning films from the World Underwater Pictures Festival.  Highlights of the weekend also include screening of films and prints in competition, slide show competition, children’s painting competition, photographic workshop, dive travel, and an exhibition of marine arts & craft. As in previous festivals, the event is the platform for OceanNEnvironment Australia to launch its annual shark conservation campaign. Over 5000 children will compete in this year’s Celebrate the Sea art competition and the finalists will be invited to compete in the final round to win the prestigious Ambassador for Sharks Award.   

To find out more on how you can attend or support this inaugural event in Indonesia, email cts@oneocean.com : CelebratetheSea.com

 The festival’s international underwater imagery competition also calls for entries from photographers and film makers to compete in the seven categories; Black and White print, Colour Print, Portfolio of Festival, Trio, Slide Shows, short video and feature length documentary.

The Celebrate the Sea weekend at the scenic Sintesa Peninsula Hotel Manado shall be jam pack with seminars on ocean conservation, climate change, underwater photographic workshops, photographic exhibition and an international underwater film festival featuring winning films from the World Underwater Pictures Festival.  Highlights of the weekend also include screening of films and prints in competition, slide shows competition, children’s painting competition, photographic workshop, dive travels, and an exhibition of marine arts & craft. As in previous festivals, the event is the platform for OceanNEnvironment Australia to launch its annual shark’s conservation campaign. Over 5000 children will compete in this year Celebrate the Sea art competition and the finalists will be invited to compete in the final round to win the prestigious Ambassador for Sharks Award. 

Most Influential Underwater ShootOut Photographer19-23 Sep USD5000 Cash & Holiday top prizes ...read more

 *To compete in the “prestigious Most Influential Underwater Shoot Out  Competition”, competitors should register with one of the official supporting resorts.

Gangga Island Resort – Ganggaisland.com : Lembeh Hills Resort – LembehHills.com : Minahasa Lagoon Resort- MinahasaLagoon.com : Tasik Ria Resort - tasikria.com : Thalassa – Santika Resort - thalassa.net : Two Fish Divers - twofishdivers.com,: Critters@Lembeh & Critters@Buyat: Lembeh Resort - lembehresort.com : Siladen Island Resort - siladen.com : Eco Divers at Kima Bajo and Lembeh - eco-divers.com

Official Venue and Host Hotel, Sponsor: Sintesa Peninsula Hotel Manado - Sintesapeninsulahotel.com

Main Sponsor: Ministry of Culture and Tourism – Republic of Indonesia

Organiser: Ocean Geographic Society – OceanNEnvironment Ltd

 

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. The Celebrate the Sea Festival is a non-profit event funded and produced by OceanNEnvironment Australia.

 

 

 

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