[From a Passmore email.]

3D FILM PREMIERE THIS WEEKEND! – Mammoth humpback whales and the vast blue of the Pacific come to life in full stereoscopic 3D when Ocean Voyagers 3D premieres in Los Angeles’ at the prestigious Downtown Independent Theatre on June 5, 2011 at 8PM.  A joint effort between Feodor Pitcairn Productions and PassmoreLab, the film is an exciting adventure where hardship pushes endurance to the brink, danger lurks around every bend, and where love knows no bounds.

 

Narrated by Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning actress Meryl Streep, and filmed over a 5-year span in the waters of French Polynesia, Hawaii, Alaska and beyond, the film follows a mother humpback whale and her newborn calf in a “coming of age” journey for the neonate giant.

 

“The heart of this film is really the relationship between our humpback mother and her calf,” remarks filmmaker Feo Pitcairn, “we had unprecedented access to these animals, filming them day after day, we established a real bond of trust. This enabled us to get rare and intimate footage  … seeing this footage on a big screen in 3D is the closest thing to experiencing first hand what we experienced while filming them underwater.”

 

This film is a stirring testament to not only the strength, grace and beauty of these animals, but also a revelation of all the challenges they face, both natural and man-made.  They must persevere through months without food, journeys of thousands of miles, and predation by shark attack — as well as the threat of commercial whaling and entanglement in fishing gear.

 

“…seeing these animals behaving naturally in their environment, interacting with one-another as only this film could allow, is truly something else,” says Greg Passmore of PassmoreLab, “…the images are hauntingly beautiful, fascinatingly imaginative.”   LA SCREENING INFO.

 

Ocean Voyagers 3D will also have a private premiere in New York on Saturday, June 4th, hosted by Dimitris Athos.  For information in attending the New York event please contact OV3D producer Laura Orthwein at laura.orthwein@gmail.com