Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the direct-action marine organization, unveiled its newest vessel, the M/V Sharpie, at a press conference, Monday, December 11th at 11:00 am at the 5th Street Marina in Miami, Fla.
Chris Sharp, Paul Watson, Sandy Yawn
The group’s founder, president, and CEO, Captain Paul Watson, greeted media, fans, and local residents who came to the unveiling ceremony on the bow of the ship. Speaking to the crowd, Watson announced that the vessel would be joining its sister ships the M/V Farley Mowat and the M/V John Paul DeJoria in the Sea of Cortez for Operation Milagro IV, a campaign to save the critically endangered vaquita porpoise. All three ships are 110 ft. Island-class patrol boats.
“With this vessel, I believe we will be able to cover the vaquita refuge 100 percent and make a very serious impact,” said Watson, before going on to explain that...
Chris Sharp, Paul Watson, Sandy Yawn
The group’s founder, president, and CEO, Captain Paul Watson, greeted media, fans, and local residents who came to the unveiling ceremony on the bow of the ship. Speaking to the crowd, Watson announced that the vessel would be joining its sister ships the M/V Farley Mowat and the M/V John Paul DeJoria in the Sea of Cortez for Operation Milagro IV, a campaign to save the critically endangered vaquita porpoise. All three ships are 110 ft. Island-class patrol boats.
“With this vessel, I believe we will be able to cover the vaquita refuge 100 percent and make a very serious impact,” said Watson, before going on to explain that...
- 12/14/2017
- Look to the Stars
To celebrate the release of Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours on Blu-ray – an excellent film based on the true story of Aron Ralston and his struggle to escape entrapment in the American outback – Owf has been challenged to compile a list of the 10 best films that focus solely (or almost) on a single character. It’s not a common occurrence in cinema – I assume because a majority of viewers easily get bored with one character very quickly – but this technique has been attempted before, to varying degrees of success.
The benefits of having only one primary character is that the development of these protagonists can be much more in depth, ensuring that a stronger bond between audience and character can be forged. The downside though, is that you have to really like them and root for them wholeheartedly.
It’s an ambitious technique to attempt, but below are what we consider...
The benefits of having only one primary character is that the development of these protagonists can be much more in depth, ensuring that a stronger bond between audience and character can be forged. The downside though, is that you have to really like them and root for them wholeheartedly.
It’s an ambitious technique to attempt, but below are what we consider...
- 6/7/2011
- by Stuart Cummins
- Obsessed with Film
Filed under: Movie News
It's hard to put a definitive label on actress-turned-filmmaker Sarah Polley; at various stages of her career she's been a child star, indie darling, political activist, genre movie leading lady, and Oscar-nominated writer/director. This intentionally-eclectic body of work has endeared her to fans around the world, but now Polley's been officially stamped with a label that's about to be laid in cement: she is one of the most famous Canadians. Ever.
The 31-year-old actress was honored with a star on Canada's Walk of Fame on Saturday, an annual event created to celebrate Canadian achievement, now in its thirteenth year. Unlike its American counterpart in Hollywood, the award isn't restricted to the entertainment industry. It acknowledges excellence in a variety of fields, including science and innovation, as well as sports and the arts.
Joining Polley and the 124 existing inductees this year were singers Nelly Furtado and Blood,...
It's hard to put a definitive label on actress-turned-filmmaker Sarah Polley; at various stages of her career she's been a child star, indie darling, political activist, genre movie leading lady, and Oscar-nominated writer/director. This intentionally-eclectic body of work has endeared her to fans around the world, but now Polley's been officially stamped with a label that's about to be laid in cement: she is one of the most famous Canadians. Ever.
The 31-year-old actress was honored with a star on Canada's Walk of Fame on Saturday, an annual event created to celebrate Canadian achievement, now in its thirteenth year. Unlike its American counterpart in Hollywood, the award isn't restricted to the entertainment industry. It acknowledges excellence in a variety of fields, including science and innovation, as well as sports and the arts.
Joining Polley and the 124 existing inductees this year were singers Nelly Furtado and Blood,...
- 10/17/2010
- by Rick Mele
- Moviefone
Every country has their negative stereotype: the French? Stinky; Americans? Obnoxious; Italians? Moped riders (shudder). Canada's stereotype, in contrast, is supposed to be great. We're nice. We're nicey-nice, nice people, helping old ladies across the street and saying "sorry" even if you bump into us. It would seem, to the international community, we're the equivalent of the guy that the hot girl is "just friends" with. We're not good enough to date, but one day she'll probably give us a hand job out of pity as long as we promise not to tell anyone.
Well, I hate to break it to you world, but Canada isn't the boring sweater-vest wearing place you think it is. Canada is a nation built by and for cranks. See, what the rest of the world doesn't realize is when you think we're being self-effacing and modest we're probably making fun of you right to your face.
Well, I hate to break it to you world, but Canada isn't the boring sweater-vest wearing place you think it is. Canada is a nation built by and for cranks. See, what the rest of the world doesn't realize is when you think we're being self-effacing and modest we're probably making fun of you right to your face.
- 2/18/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
There's no question where director/producer Dan Stone stands on the matter of Japan's incessant drive to kill whales under the guise of doing research in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary. After discovering the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's sometimes illegal efforts to stop whalers as the primarily Japanese fleets prowl the southern ice cap for whale pods, Stone placed a set of five alternating cameramen/cnematographers on two ships, The Farley Mowat and The Robert Hunter to make the documentary At The Edge of The World. As the activists searched for the whalers and engaged them in self-described "direct action" (sabotage, vandalism, etc.), his crew faced frighteningly cold conditions to capture the harrowing experiences of the conservationists. The under-trained and under-equipped international volunteer crew, under the command of long-time activist Paul Watson and first-time captain Alex Cornelissen, apply a combination of bizarre and...
- 9/30/2009
- by Brad Balfour
- Huffington Post
Like many youth of our generation, we have fond memories of Never Cry Wolf, the stirring adaptation of Farley Mowat’s book that put an untrained biologist into the snowy tundra of Alaska to study the effect of the state’s wolves on the caribou population. Unfortunately, the 2008 Sci Fi Channel original movie Never Cry Werewolf doesn’t have anything to do with that movie. Don’t go thinking that it’s an original piece of horror magic, though – instead, it’s an inexplicable remake of a different 80s movie, 1985’s Fright Night.
- 10/1/2008
- UGO Movies
Like many youth of our generation, we have fond memories of Never Cry Wolf, the stirring adaptation of Farley Mowat’s book that put an untrained biologist into the snowy tundra of Alaska to study the effect of the state’s wolves on the caribou population. Unfortunately, the 2008 Sci Fi Channel original movie Never Cry Werewolf doesn’t have anything to do with that movie. Don’t go thinking that it’s an original piece of horror magic, though – instead, it’s an inexplicable remake of a different 80s movie, 1985’s Fright Night.
- 10/1/2008
- UGO Movies
Lions Gate Films
Actor-director Charles Martin Smith is no stranger to the Great White Northern domain of Farley Mowat, having played the Canadian author in the 1983 adaptation of his classic novel "Never Cry Wolf".
Smith remains behind the camera for "The Snow Walker", which he adapted from the Mowat short story "Walk Well My Brother". While, visually speaking, he has the untamed terrain down cold, this odd-couple survival tale involving a cocky pilot and a young Inuit woman, which was screened at the much-warmer Bangkok International Film Festival, never quite takes off dramatically.
Barry Pepper brings the right amount of flyboy swagger and a decent Canadian accent to the role of Charlie Halliday, a cocky former World War II pilot who does pickup and delivery work throughout the Northwest Territories for a private air outfit.
During one of his runs, he's approached by an Inuit family who bribe him with a pair of walrus tusks to fly their tubercular daughter (Annabella Piugattuk) to a hospital in Yellowknife.
When engine failure plunges them 200 miles from the nearest village, they must learn to overcome a language barrier and start fending for themselves with the creeping realization that a rescue effort may not be imminent.
Smith and a trio of cinematographers (Paul Sarossy, Jon Joffin and David Connell) capture the imposing elements -- from blinding snow to swarming insects -- to highly visceral effect, while Pepper and the expressive Inuit actress Piugattuk form a curious bond.
But rather than trusting that core relationship, Smith keeps cutting back to home base, where Halliday's boss (James Cromwell) is overseeing a hopeless search-and-rescue mission. Those constant interruptions prevent the story from building to a satisfying emotional pitch, leaving the film, like the characters, to trudge circuitously across that vast frozen tundra.
Actor-director Charles Martin Smith is no stranger to the Great White Northern domain of Farley Mowat, having played the Canadian author in the 1983 adaptation of his classic novel "Never Cry Wolf".
Smith remains behind the camera for "The Snow Walker", which he adapted from the Mowat short story "Walk Well My Brother". While, visually speaking, he has the untamed terrain down cold, this odd-couple survival tale involving a cocky pilot and a young Inuit woman, which was screened at the much-warmer Bangkok International Film Festival, never quite takes off dramatically.
Barry Pepper brings the right amount of flyboy swagger and a decent Canadian accent to the role of Charlie Halliday, a cocky former World War II pilot who does pickup and delivery work throughout the Northwest Territories for a private air outfit.
During one of his runs, he's approached by an Inuit family who bribe him with a pair of walrus tusks to fly their tubercular daughter (Annabella Piugattuk) to a hospital in Yellowknife.
When engine failure plunges them 200 miles from the nearest village, they must learn to overcome a language barrier and start fending for themselves with the creeping realization that a rescue effort may not be imminent.
Smith and a trio of cinematographers (Paul Sarossy, Jon Joffin and David Connell) capture the imposing elements -- from blinding snow to swarming insects -- to highly visceral effect, while Pepper and the expressive Inuit actress Piugattuk form a curious bond.
But rather than trusting that core relationship, Smith keeps cutting back to home base, where Halliday's boss (James Cromwell) is overseeing a hopeless search-and-rescue mission. Those constant interruptions prevent the story from building to a satisfying emotional pitch, leaving the film, like the characters, to trudge circuitously across that vast frozen tundra.
Lions Gate Films
Actor-director Charles Martin Smith is no stranger to the Great White Northern domain of Farley Mowat, having played the Canadian author in the 1983 adaptation of his classic novel "Never Cry Wolf".
Smith remains behind the camera for "The Snow Walker", which he adapted from the Mowat short story "Walk Well My Brother". While, visually speaking, he has the untamed terrain down cold, this odd-couple survival tale involving a cocky pilot and a young Inuit woman, which was screened at the much-warmer Bangkok International Film Festival, never quite takes off dramatically.
Barry Pepper brings the right amount of flyboy swagger and a decent Canadian accent to the role of Charlie Halliday, a cocky former World War II pilot who does pickup and delivery work throughout the Northwest Territories for a private air outfit.
During one of his runs, he's approached by an Inuit family who bribe him with a pair of walrus tusks to fly their tubercular daughter (Annabella Piugattuk) to a hospital in Yellowknife.
When engine failure plunges them 200 miles from the nearest village, they must learn to overcome a language barrier and start fending for themselves with the creeping realization that a rescue effort may not be imminent.
Smith and a trio of cinematographers (Paul Sarossy, Jon Joffin and David Connell) capture the imposing elements -- from blinding snow to swarming insects -- to highly visceral effect, while Pepper and the expressive Inuit actress Piugattuk form a curious bond.
But rather than trusting that core relationship, Smith keeps cutting back to home base, where Halliday's boss (James Cromwell) is overseeing a hopeless search-and-rescue mission. Those constant interruptions prevent the story from building to a satisfying emotional pitch, leaving the film, like the characters, to trudge circuitously across that vast frozen tundra.
Actor-director Charles Martin Smith is no stranger to the Great White Northern domain of Farley Mowat, having played the Canadian author in the 1983 adaptation of his classic novel "Never Cry Wolf".
Smith remains behind the camera for "The Snow Walker", which he adapted from the Mowat short story "Walk Well My Brother". While, visually speaking, he has the untamed terrain down cold, this odd-couple survival tale involving a cocky pilot and a young Inuit woman, which was screened at the much-warmer Bangkok International Film Festival, never quite takes off dramatically.
Barry Pepper brings the right amount of flyboy swagger and a decent Canadian accent to the role of Charlie Halliday, a cocky former World War II pilot who does pickup and delivery work throughout the Northwest Territories for a private air outfit.
During one of his runs, he's approached by an Inuit family who bribe him with a pair of walrus tusks to fly their tubercular daughter (Annabella Piugattuk) to a hospital in Yellowknife.
When engine failure plunges them 200 miles from the nearest village, they must learn to overcome a language barrier and start fending for themselves with the creeping realization that a rescue effort may not be imminent.
Smith and a trio of cinematographers (Paul Sarossy, Jon Joffin and David Connell) capture the imposing elements -- from blinding snow to swarming insects -- to highly visceral effect, while Pepper and the expressive Inuit actress Piugattuk form a curious bond.
But rather than trusting that core relationship, Smith keeps cutting back to home base, where Halliday's boss (James Cromwell) is overseeing a hopeless search-and-rescue mission. Those constant interruptions prevent the story from building to a satisfying emotional pitch, leaving the film, like the characters, to trudge circuitously across that vast frozen tundra.
Lions Gate Films
Actor-director Charles Martin Smith is no stranger to the Great White Northern domain of Farley Mowat, having played the Canadian author in the 1983 adaptation of his classic novel "Never Cry Wolf".
Smith remains behind the camera for "The Snow Walker", which he adapted from the Mowat short story "Walk Well My Brother". While, visually speaking, he has the untamed terrain down cold, this odd-couple survival tale involving a cocky pilot and a young Inuit woman, which was screened at the much-warmer Bangkok International Film Festival, never quite takes off dramatically.
Barry Pepper brings the right amount of flyboy swagger and a decent Canadian accent to the role of Charlie Halliday, a cocky former World War II pilot who does pickup and delivery work throughout the Northwest Territories for a private air outfit.
During one of his runs, he's approached by an Inuit family who bribe him with a pair of walrus tusks to fly their tubercular daughter (Annabella Piugattuk) to a hospital in Yellowknife.
When engine failure plunges them 200 miles from the nearest village, they must learn to overcome a language barrier and start fending for themselves with the creeping realization that a rescue effort may not be imminent.
Smith and a trio of cinematographers (Paul Sarossy, Jon Joffin and David Connell) capture the imposing elements -- from blinding snow to swarming insects -- to highly visceral effect, while Pepper and the expressive Inuit actress Piugattuk form a curious bond.
But rather than trusting that core relationship, Smith keeps cutting back to home base, where Halliday's boss (James Cromwell) is overseeing a hopeless search-and-rescue mission. Those constant interruptions prevent the story from building to a satisfying emotional pitch, leaving the film, like the characters, to trudge circuitously across that vast frozen tundra.
Actor-director Charles Martin Smith is no stranger to the Great White Northern domain of Farley Mowat, having played the Canadian author in the 1983 adaptation of his classic novel "Never Cry Wolf".
Smith remains behind the camera for "The Snow Walker", which he adapted from the Mowat short story "Walk Well My Brother". While, visually speaking, he has the untamed terrain down cold, this odd-couple survival tale involving a cocky pilot and a young Inuit woman, which was screened at the much-warmer Bangkok International Film Festival, never quite takes off dramatically.
Barry Pepper brings the right amount of flyboy swagger and a decent Canadian accent to the role of Charlie Halliday, a cocky former World War II pilot who does pickup and delivery work throughout the Northwest Territories for a private air outfit.
During one of his runs, he's approached by an Inuit family who bribe him with a pair of walrus tusks to fly their tubercular daughter (Annabella Piugattuk) to a hospital in Yellowknife.
When engine failure plunges them 200 miles from the nearest village, they must learn to overcome a language barrier and start fending for themselves with the creeping realization that a rescue effort may not be imminent.
Smith and a trio of cinematographers (Paul Sarossy, Jon Joffin and David Connell) capture the imposing elements -- from blinding snow to swarming insects -- to highly visceral effect, while Pepper and the expressive Inuit actress Piugattuk form a curious bond.
But rather than trusting that core relationship, Smith keeps cutting back to home base, where Halliday's boss (James Cromwell) is overseeing a hopeless search-and-rescue mission. Those constant interruptions prevent the story from building to a satisfying emotional pitch, leaving the film, like the characters, to trudge circuitously across that vast frozen tundra.
- 3/24/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lions Gate Films
Actor-director Charles Martin Smith is no stranger to the Great White Northern domain of Farley Mowat, having played the Canadian author in the 1983 adaptation of his classic novel "Never Cry Wolf".
Smith remains behind the camera for "The Snow Walker", which he adapted from the Mowat short story "Walk Well My Brother". While, visually speaking, he has the untamed terrain down cold, this odd-couple survival tale involving a cocky pilot and a young Inuit woman, which was screened at the much-warmer Bangkok International Film Festival, never quite takes off dramatically.
Barry Pepper brings the right amount of flyboy swagger and a decent Canadian accent to the role of Charlie Halliday, a cocky former World War II pilot who does pickup and delivery work throughout the Northwest Territories for a private air outfit.
During one of his runs, he's approached by an Inuit family who bribe him with a pair of walrus tusks to fly their tubercular daughter (Annabella Piugattuk) to a hospital in Yellowknife.
When engine failure plunges them 200 miles from the nearest village, they must learn to overcome a language barrier and start fending for themselves with the creeping realization that a rescue effort may not be imminent.
Smith and a trio of cinematographers (Paul Sarossy, Jon Joffin and David Connell) capture the imposing elements -- from blinding snow to swarming insects -- to highly visceral effect, while Pepper and the expressive Inuit actress Piugattuk form a curious bond.
But rather than trusting that core relationship, Smith keeps cutting back to home base, where Halliday's boss (James Cromwell) is overseeing a hopeless search-and-rescue mission. Those constant interruptions prevent the story from building to a satisfying emotional pitch, leaving the film, like the characters, to trudge circuitously across that vast frozen tundra.
Actor-director Charles Martin Smith is no stranger to the Great White Northern domain of Farley Mowat, having played the Canadian author in the 1983 adaptation of his classic novel "Never Cry Wolf".
Smith remains behind the camera for "The Snow Walker", which he adapted from the Mowat short story "Walk Well My Brother". While, visually speaking, he has the untamed terrain down cold, this odd-couple survival tale involving a cocky pilot and a young Inuit woman, which was screened at the much-warmer Bangkok International Film Festival, never quite takes off dramatically.
Barry Pepper brings the right amount of flyboy swagger and a decent Canadian accent to the role of Charlie Halliday, a cocky former World War II pilot who does pickup and delivery work throughout the Northwest Territories for a private air outfit.
During one of his runs, he's approached by an Inuit family who bribe him with a pair of walrus tusks to fly their tubercular daughter (Annabella Piugattuk) to a hospital in Yellowknife.
When engine failure plunges them 200 miles from the nearest village, they must learn to overcome a language barrier and start fending for themselves with the creeping realization that a rescue effort may not be imminent.
Smith and a trio of cinematographers (Paul Sarossy, Jon Joffin and David Connell) capture the imposing elements -- from blinding snow to swarming insects -- to highly visceral effect, while Pepper and the expressive Inuit actress Piugattuk form a curious bond.
But rather than trusting that core relationship, Smith keeps cutting back to home base, where Halliday's boss (James Cromwell) is overseeing a hopeless search-and-rescue mission. Those constant interruptions prevent the story from building to a satisfying emotional pitch, leaving the film, like the characters, to trudge circuitously across that vast frozen tundra.
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