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Two documentaries by director Andrew Stevenson will be screened back-to-back at Speciality Cinema on April 16 at 7.00pm. Mr.
Stevenson said, “‘Where the Whales Sing’ was completed in 2010. 60 minutes long, it won numerous awards including ‘Best Underwater Filmmaker’ at the 2010 BLUE Ocean Film festival in Monterey, California. It has been subtitled or dubbed in Spanish, Italian, Korean, Persian, and Czechoslovakian.
It was included in several airlines’ in-flight entertainment programs, including Air Canada, and won the prestigious $10,000 Masterworks/Charman Art Prize. “‘The Secret Lives of the Humpbacks,’ completed in 2019, it is based on an additional ten years of unique visual insights into the mid-ocean social lives of the North Atlantic humpback whales. 43 minutes long, it has been subtitled in French and won film festival awards including ‘Best Oceans Film’ at the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival in NYC in 2019 and Audience Choice Award at the Festival International du Documentaire Maritime in France in 2022.
“We are coming towards the end of the whale season, and this double screening is a celebration of the migrating humpback whales as they continue their journey north to their feeding grounds from their winter breeding/calving grounds in the Caribbean. So far this year, we have identified almost two hundred individuals by the unique black and white pigmentation patterns on the underside of their tails. Many of these whales have been seen over multiple years.
“In January of this year Bermuda, ‘Somers Isles and Adjacent Seamounts’ was designated an Important Marine Mammal Area [IMMA] by the International Union of Conservation of Nature [IUCN]. “IMMAs are defined as discrete portions of habitat, important to marine mammal species, that have the potential to be delineated and managed for conservation. They are not legal designations, but independent, peer-reviewed assessments based on criteria supported by the best data.
“At a time when fishing and shipping have expanded along with proposed seismic exploring for hydrocarbons and rare minerals in the seabed, governments are having to make difficult decisions about which areas to protect and which to license for use.” Tickets cost $10 and can be purchased by . : , ,.
