‘ANGEL AZUL’, Environmental Documentary at the Intersection of Art, Science, and the Suffering Seas, screened at Newport Beach Film Festival.
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If you missed today's show with Marcy Cravat, listen here.
NEWPORT BEACH, CA – April 9, 2015– San Francisco Bay area film Director, Marcelina Cravat ‘s Award-winning
“Angel Azul”, feature-length environmental
documentary narrated by Peter Coyote,
to screen at the Newport Beach Film Festival at the Fashion Island
Cinema on April 25th at 5:45pm in Theater 5 and April 27 at 3:15.
Daughter of late actor Nick
Cravat, circus partner, life long friend, and co-star alongside Burt Lancaster
in the legendary 1940s-50s films “The
Crimson Pirate” and “The Flame and
the Arrow”, Cravat’s emerging career as a filmmaker follows her many years
as a professional photographer, trained at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena,
California. Upon completion of film school from the Berkeley Digital Film
Institute in 2010, Cravat's focus on portrait style documentaries that explore
the lives of local artists such as Hayes Valley jazz singer Jacqui Naylor
prompted Cravat to document British eco-sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor, who is
featured in Angel Azul.
Taylor’s hauntingly beautiful
artificial coral reefs are created from statues cast from human models and then
installed on the ocean floor at El Museo Subacuático De Arte, an underwater
museum located off the coast of the Yucatán. MUSA, the world’s first underwater
museum, has been referred to as one of the top 25 Wonders of the World by National Geographic magazine and called
“one of the world’s most unique travel destinations” by Forbes Magazine.
Angel
Azul documents the creation of Taylor’s symbol of hope:
an angel with wings made from live fan coral that flow back and forth with the
tide. The film takes a turn when Taylor’s deployed statues including the “Silent Evolution” designed to raise
awareness about the urgent need to address some of today’s most pressing environmental issues, are
suffocated by prolific blooms of weedy algae. Scientists such as Dr. Sylvia Earle are asked to
help explain the issues surrounding coral reef demise and provide suggestions for
solutions that not only impact the Mesoamerican Coral Reef where Taylor’s
statues reside, but coral reefs worldwide that are dying at unprecedented rates
and expected to completely disappear within our lifetimes if immediate action
is not taken.
“Angel
Azul” received praise at its world premiere at The
Environmental Film Festival, Washington, D.C., in March 2014 as a documentary
that blends art and science to deliver a powerful message: the choices we make
today will determine what we leave to future generations.
“Everything connects,” says Dr,
Sylvia Earle. “Everything we do to our
land, our air, our sea will be measured. Nature’s calling… are we listening?”
Trailer can be viewed here:www.angelazulthemovie.com
ANGEL AZUL
Angel Azul explores the artistic journey of Jason deCaires Taylor, an innovative artist who combines creativity with an important environmental solution; the creation of artificial coral reefs from statues he's cast from live models. When algae overtakes the reefs however, experts provide the facts about the perilous situation coral reefs currently face and solutions necessary to save them. Peter Coyote generously provides insightful narration that leaves viewers pondering our connection to this valuable and beautiful ecosystem.
LOGLINE
- Through the hauntingly beautiful lure of an eco-sculptor’s
underwater life-like statues we witness the birth of an artificial coral reef,
learn how we are inextricably connected to the ocean and are left to consider
how our choices today will determine what we leave to future generations.
TAGLINE
- Casting For a New Generation.
CONTACT
- Marcy Cravat, Director/Producer. marcy@angelazulthemovie.com ph:
510.332.2143
Marcelina Cravat, trained at the Art Center College of Design in photography and the Berkeley Digital Film Institute in film, and has just completed an award winning environmental documentary called Angel Azul. Making a transition from photography to film came later in life when her love for storytelling motivated her to return to school to pursue a career as a writer/director. Upon graduating, she co-founded a small production company specializing in portrait style documentaries on artists and then went on to found Passelande Pictures that serves as an umbrella for all of her projects going forward. Marcelina grew up around Hollywood sets as daughter of character actor Nick Cravat, Burt Lancaster’s life long chum, circus partner and co-star.
SOCIAL MEDIA CONTACTS
Twitter - twitter.com/AngelAzulMovie
IMDB – www.imdb.com/title/tt3242930/
Press Contact:
Marcy Cravat
Passelande Pictures, LLC.
510.332.2143
YEAR OF COMPLETION - 2014
FEATURING - Artist Jason
deCaires Taylor, Dr. Sylvia Earle, Dr. Tom Goreau.
Narrated by Peter Coyote.
Narrated by Peter Coyote.
TECHNICAL
Running time - 72 minutes
Exhibition Format - DCP, Bluray,
Movie file
Aspect Ratio - 16:9
Shooting format: HD
FESTIVALS TO DATE
Environmental Film Festival in Our
Nation’s Capital 2014 (Premiere)
Alamos Mexico International Film
Festival 2014 (Honorable Mention)
Sheffield Videoteque 2014
Boston International 2014
Ecofest 2014
San Francisco Green 2014
Belize International 2014
Hawaii Green Screen 2014
American’s Latin Eco Film Festival
2014
Breckenridge Film Festival 2014 (Best Documentary)
Wine Country Film Festival 2014
Port Townsend Film Festival 2014
Dominican Republic International
Film Festival 2014
Woodstock 2014 (Staff Pick)
United Nations Association Film
Festival 2014 (Best Cinematography)
Environmental Film Festival in
Melbourne 2014
Inverness Film Festival 2014
Hebrides Environmental Film Festival
2014
Raindance Film Festival 2014
Carmel Film Festival 2014
Hawaii International Film Festival
2014
Vermont International Film Festival
2014
Brattleboro Film Festival 2014
Bel-Air Film Festival 2014 (Best Cinematography)
Blue Ocean Film Festival (Finalist 2014)
FICMA 2014
Filmmakers of the Year Film Festival
(Silver winner)
EcoCup 2015 Moscow (Best Director) (Best
Environmental Solution)
Wild & Scenic 2015
EcoCup Environmental Film Festival
2015
One Earth Film Festival 2015
Princeton Film Festival 2015 (Stan Waterman Award for Excellence)
Cleveland Intl Film Festival 2015
Project Native Environmental Film
Festival 2015
Julien Dubuque Film Festival 2015 (Finalist. Winners announced late April)
The International Water and Films
Event Film Festival 2015
Newport Beach Film Festival 2015
FILMED IN MEXICO, INDONESIA, UNITED STATES
