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2010 FINALIST FILMS
 
Congratulations to BLUE's 2010 Winners!

 
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The Judges Results are in. Without further ado we are very pleased to announce the 2010 international film competition finalists. The response to our call for submissions was outstanding with over 350 entries in 19 categories submitted by the most talented ocean filmmakers from around the world. The competition was intense and our panel of 22  judges worked diligently to narrow the list.  

All Finalist films will be screened during the Festival (August 24 - 29) in one of our 6 Monterey Peninsula theater venues. Honorable Mention films will be screened as our schedule allows.

It is with great pleasure BLUE announces the finalists of this year's film competition:
Best of Festival
  • Bag It  -  WINNER

Special Jury Award
  • Under the Sea 3D  -  WINNER
Broadcast
  • Big Sur: Wild California | National Geographic TV
  • Humpbacks from Fire to Ice | Kohola Pty Ltd / YNR Marketing
  • Into The Dragon's Liar | NHU Africa
  • Orca Killing School | National Geographic TV
  • Strange Days On Planet Earth: Dirty Secrets | Sea Studios Foundation for National Geographic  -  WINNER

Honorable Mention 

  • Chefs A Field: Old Salts Young Guns | Warner Hanson TV
  • The Farallon Islands: California's Galapagos | Quest/KQED
 
Children's Programming
  • Aquateam/Free Diving | Arcadia Entertainment
  • Aquateam/ROV | Arcadia Entertainment
  • Slime, Snot, Guts | Children's BBC & Digital Dimensions Australia
  • The Krill is Gone | Deep Green Films Ltd.  -  WINNER
  • The Reef's Got Talent | Children's BBC & Digital Dimensions Australia 

Honorable Mention

  • Sea Adventure | Fortes, McLitus, Weiting, Lukowski
 
Dot Doc
  • Humbolt Squid: An invader in the Sea of Cortez | RTSea Productions
  • My Pod | Ray Hollowell and Maggie Franks / PlanSEA TV
  • What Children Know | Blue Voice
  • Willem & the Whales | MMCTA  -  WINNER
  • Yao Ming Shark Fin Soup | Wild Aid
  • History Revealed | Waitt Expeditions Series

Honorable Mention

  • Arctic Summer Sea Ice: It's Melting! | RTSea Productions
  • He Heard the Dolphins' Cry | Blue Voice
  • Requiem for the Orcas | Blue Voice
  • Shark Ecotourism at Isla Guadalupe | RTSea Productions
  • Disappearing Dolphins | Earth Ocean Media
 
Emerging Underwater Filmmaker
  • In the Eye of the Whale | MMCTA
  • In the Wake of Giants | Akua Films
  • Where the Whales Sing | Andrew Stevenson  -  WINNER

Honorable Mention

  • Invasion Azul (Blue Invasion) | Arnaldo Diaz
  • Leatherback | Clay Wiseman
  • Life By The Tide | Joshua Cassidy
 
Excellence in Underwater Cinematography
  • Into The Dragon's Lair | NHU Africa  -  WINNER
  • Killer Whales | Pangolin Pictures
  • Undersea Edens / The Majestic South | Reigndrop Media
  • Undersea Edens / Rainforest to Reef | Reigndrop Media

Honorable Mention

  • Superfish | Wild Logic LLC
  • Undersea Edens / The Frozen Isle | Reigndrop Media
 
Featuring Monterey Bay
  • A Wave of Change - CA MPA'S | Mountain & Sea Productions
  • Big Sur: Wild California | National Geographic TV
  • II Mare di Joe | Enzo Incontro - ETHNOS  -  WINNER

Honorable Mention

  • What's Killing the Sea Otters | Quest/KQED 
 
Land Sea Connection
  • Sola | Oceans 8 Films
  • The Bering Sea: Ecosystem in Crisis | Melissa  Thompson  -  WINNER
  • Cycle of Insanity: The Real Story of Water | Surfrider Foundation
  • Big River | Wicked Delicate Films / Mosaic Film
  • What Would Darwin Think? | Oceans 8 Films

Honorable Mention

    • California's Lost Salmon | Quest/KQED
    • Eating the Ocean | Reel Blue
    • H é é n Taak | Pixnat
    • Plastic Seas | Quest/KQED
 
Marine Earth Sciences
  • Drain the Ocean | National Geographic Channel
  • One Ocean: Changing Seas | Merit Motion Pictures  -  WINNER
  • Tracking Their Silent Voices | Ton und Film
  • Scary Tsunamis | Quest/KQED

Honorable Mention

  • Operation Deep Sea / Shedding Light in the Darkness | Marco Polo Film
  • Orca Killing School | National Geographic TV
  • Kilauea Mountain of Fire | Pangolin Pictures
 
Marine Animal Behavior
  • Andrea: Queen of Mantas | BBC/Big Waves
  • Killer Whales | Pangolin Pictures
  • Life: Fish | BBC  -  WINNER
  • Superfish | Wild Logic
  • The Great Feast | BBC

Honorable Mention

  • A Tiger's Tale | Wild Indie Ltd.
  • Orca Killing School | National Geographic TV
  • Who Killed Miracle? | Who Killed Miracle Productions
 
National Marine Sanctuary Shorts
  • Blue Water Oasis | Cordel Banks NMS | Mountain Sea Productions
  • In The Wake Of Giants | Akua FIlms  -  WINNER
  • The Farallon Islands: "California's Galapagos" | Quest/KQED
  • Protecting Americas National Marine Monuments | Sea Stewards Studios
Honorable Mention
  • Beneath The Rainbow Bridge | NOAA
  • Flower Garden Banks NMS | Synergy Productions
  • Lost on a Reef | Open Boat Films, LLC
 
Non Broadcast
  • In Awe of Sharks | Save Our Seas Foundation
  • Isla Holbox, Whale Shark Island | Mountain Sea Productions  -  WINNER
  • National Aquarium: Marine Animal Rescue Program | National Aquarium
  • The Gray Whale | Oceans Today
  • Wyland Glass Art Series | Richmond Productions

Honorable Mention

  • Beneath The Rainbow Bridge | NOAA
  • Coral Forests of the Deep | Oceans Today
  • Coral Reef Alliance PSA | Coral Reef Alliance
 
Ocean Exploration and Adventure
  • Atlantic Crossing: A Robot's Daring Mission | Rutgers University
  • Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventures: America's Underwater Treasures | Ocean Futures Society  -  WINNER
  • Life: Creatures of the Deep | BBC
  • Mysteries of the Shark Coast | Digital Dimensions
  • One Ocean: Mysteries of the Deep | Merit Motion Pictures

Honorable Mention

  • Expedition Antarctica | NHNZ
  • Madstreak | Nancy Ogden
 
Ocean Issues & Conservation
  • Bag It | Reel Thing Productions  -  WINNER
  • Global Focus VIII : The New Environmentalist | Valley Film Group
  • Strange Days on Planet Earth: Dirty Secrets | Sea Studios Foundation for National Geographic
  • South Pacific: Fragile Paradise | BBC
  • The End of the Line | Calm Productions

Honorable Mention

  • A Sheltered Sea: The Southern Passage | The Baum Foundation
  • Belly-up: Salmon in Peril | Andrew Deiters
  • Home For Hawksbill | Jordan Plotsky Productions
  • Sea the Truth | Monique Van Dijk Armor
  • Students Saving The Ocean | Mediamobc
 

Ocean Sports

  • Aspiring Depths | Blue Eye FX Productions
  • Drop Zone Tahiti | Body Glove International/PADI
  • The Ultimate Wave Tahiti | Perfect Wave Inc / Stephen Lowe Co.  -  WINNER

Honorable Mention

  • Floating: The Nathan Gocke Story | Curtis Birch Inc.
  • From the Badlands to Alcatraz | Nancy Iverson
  • Riding the Wave of Autism | Birdman Productions
  • The Board Meeting | Maggie Franks
  • Weightless | Organized Chaos Mediaworks
  • We Love Sharks | Body Glove International
 
Original Music Score
  • In the Wake of Giants | Akua Films
  • Into the Dragon's Lair | Kevin Smuts
  • Disneynature OCEANS | Jake Eberts / Disneynature - Don Hahn  -  WINNER
  • Willem & the Whale | MMCTA
 
Shorts
  • Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification | Tristan Bayer/ Daniel Hinerfeld / NRDC  -  WINNER
  • Ocean Of Truth | Conservation International
  • Explore the Coral Triangle | Conservation International
  • Ocean +2C | Center For Ocean Solutions / ILCP
  • Plastic Seas | Quest/KQED
  • The Last Ocean | Weller Media

Honorable Mention

  • A Lateral Line | 333 Productions
  • A Polar Whale's Appeal | The Oceana Project
  • Eating the Ocean | Reel Blue
  • Illegal Pirate Fishing | Environmental Justice Organization
  • Sea Turtles | PBS Nature
  • The Last Frontier | Alaska Motion Pictures
 
Spanish Language
  • Alerta Verde: Al Rojo Vivo Tiburones Blanco | Telemundo
  • Alerta Verde: AL Rojo Vivo Arrecifes | Telemundo
  • Luchando por La Vida | Carlos Roberto Rivas Grom Communications  -  WINNER
  • The End of the Line/Spanish Subtitiles | Calm Productions
  • Un Oceano de Verdad | Conservation International

Honorable Mention

  • Alerta Verde: Al Rojo Vivo Bellenas Grises
  • Corredo Ecologia del Noreste: Conservado para el Futuro |  Maria Falcon
  • Invasion Azul | Estera
  • Los Corales de Celebra | Maria Falcon
  • Secrets de la Isla Guadelupe | Eddie Kisfaludy
 
Student Films
  • Albatrocity | Splashroom
  • Chasing Giants | Chris Hanson and Chris Fedor  -  WINNER
  • Crab Feast or Famine | Kat Moon
  • Lost on a Reef | Stephani Gordon
  • Sea Adventure | Fortes, McLitus, Weiting, Lukowski
  • Skimming the Surface | Landon Lott

Honorable Mention

  • Free Dem Whalez | Jamie Aquino
  • Harvester: The California Urchin Diver Experience | Highliner Studios
  • Marine Reserves | Adrienne Strubb
  • Saving the Seaflower Conch | Brad Allgood
 
Theatrical
  • At the Edge of the World | Dan Stone
  • Beneath the Blue | Quantum Releasing
  • Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist | Bluerage Media LLC
  • Disneynature OCEANS | Jake Eberts / Disneynature - Don Hahn  -  WINNER
  • The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D | Perfect Wave Inc / Stephen Lowe Co. 
  • Under the Sea 3D | Howard Hall Productions

Special Screenings

  • 180 South - Conquerors of the Useless | Woodshed Films
  • Coral Reef Adventure | MacGillivray Freeman Films
  • Fuel | Josh & Rebeka Tickell
  • Hurricane on the Bayou | MacGillivray Freeman Films
  • La Pesca... c'era una volta | Pippo Cappellano / Capmar Studios
  • Mediterraneo, Ultima Arca | Pippo Cappellano / Capmar Studios
  • Oceanmen | Bob Talbot Productions
  • On The Wings of Penguins | Robert Cline
  • Palme a Mare | Pippo Cappellano / Capmar Studios

ALL films accepted into the festival will be available for viewing on-demand in our Video Library, which will be open during the festival (August 26-28)
 
Congratulations to all our filmmakers for doing a great job of using the power of film to increase our understanding of
the mysteries within the seas and improving awareness of the issues facing our oceans.
 
We look forward to you join us and the world's best ocean filmmakers in Monterey for an empowering & entertaining event.