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
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
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