2007 Festival Report

PARTNERS

PROGRAM

Film Festival : Forum & Seminars : Keynote Presentations

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Main Venue 21- 23 September 2007

Celebrate the Sea PHILIPPINES FILM Festival 2007

Roxas Blvd. Cultural Center Complex Manila

Keynote Presentations

 David Doubilet

Across the Pacific: The vast blue belt of the Pacific Ocean is composed of wildly different undersea countries. We will travel across the Pacific seascape from the temperate Galapagos Islands to the teeming reefs of Indonesia. This is a show that is not a portrait of an ocean but a photographic journey across the richest, most diverse part of our Water Planet.

Emory Kristof

A special presentation by the discoverer of the Titanic and deep sea vents. Don’t miss special treat.

THE HEART OF THE SEA -  On, or near, the equator there are three deep basins surrounded by the islands that make up Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.  The shallow waters surrounding the Banda, Celebes, and Sulu Seas contain more different species of marine animal life than any other place on earth.  As you travel away from this area there are still many marine animals, but the number of  species drops off as the distance increases.  This is indeed the center of shallow water marine speciation for all the world’s oceans, and its existence raises a lot interesting questions: Why is species diversity so high in this region?  What is happening in the unexplored deep water?

 The Celebes and Sulu Seas have water as deep as 16,700 feet, and their basins have very high sills.  They are so isolated from the world’s oceans that they have never been exposed to, or mixed with, the cold Antarctic bottom water which chills the deep water in all the oceans of the planet.  As a result, the water of the Celebes and Sulu Seas is relatively warm, even at great depths.  During past Ice Ages, when the level of the oceans dropped as much 400 feet, the Celebes and the Sulu Seas were even more isolated.  Because of their locations near the equator, and lack of Antarctic water, they have the warmest water left on the planet.  A Miocene like relic, they could be thought of as incubators or perhaps the ancient heart of the ocean. 

 In September and October 2007 the Inner Space Speciation Project will be conducting the first top-to-bottom exploration of the Celebes Sea in cooperation with the Philippine government.  Using one of their 175 foot oceanographic vessels, an American 10,000 foot capable ROV fitted out with HDTV and biological collection equipment, baited deep sea cameras, scuba diving, and deep sea trawls, this joint expedition will spend two weeks probing the depths to see what lives there.

Amos Nachoum

Amos Nachoum –        The Big, Bold and Beautiful – a pictorial adventure of Amos work with the big animals of our ocean – from sailfish, orca, polar bears, whales to the Leopard seals in Antarctica

Forum & Seminars – principal presentations

SAVING OUR SEAS WITH UNDERWATER IMAGERY – does underwater imagery contributes to preservation to our coral reefs, endangered marine animals? How can underwater image makers contribute?

Jennifer Hayes, David Doubilet, Steve White, Joe Moreira, Stuart Green

CELEBRATING OUR SEA OF DIVERSITY - Nature’s Richest Realm

(Mathieu Meur, Scott Tuason, Philippe Poppe, Guido Poppe, Lynn Funkhouser)

PRESERVING OUR SEA OF DIVERSITY – Nature’s Richest Realm – the NGO, the local stake holders, the challenge. (Michael AW, Stuart Green, Bryan Dias, Ferdie Mercelo, Guido Poppe)

DIVERS ARE SAID TO BE THE BEST AMBASSADOR FOR OUR SEA – how can divers help?

(Stuart Green, Bryan Dias, Ferdie Mercelo, Joe Moreira)

EMBRACING DIGITAL UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY ( part 1 and 2); advanced techniques and application; selecting pictures for competition.

Michael AW, Mathieu Meur, Scott Tuason, Lynn Funkhouser

Celebrate the Sea - Films in competition:

screening of Finalists 2007 (titles to be advise)

World Festival of Underwater Pictures (Antibes) Première - FILM FESTIVAL