"Eco-Pirate" tells the story of a man on a mission to save the planet and its oceans. The film follows professional radical ecologist, Captain Paul Watson as he repeatedly flouts the law, so that he may apprehend what he sees as the more serious law-breakers: the illegal poachers of the world.
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A documentary on Paul Watson, who takes the law into his own hands on the open seas, confronting, by any nonviolent means necessary, the hunters who indiscriminately slaughter whales, seals and sharks, along with complicit governments and environmental organizations. Written by Anonymous "Pirate for the Sea" is a biographical film of Captain Paul Watson, the youngest founding member of Greenpeace Canada. He organized early campaigns protesting the killing of seals, whales, and dolphins. Greenpeace ejected him for being too much of an activist. Starting his own organization, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, he went on to sink illegal whaling ships, stopped Canadian seal hunts for ten years, permanently halted sealing in British Isles, killing of dolphins on Iki Island, Japan, etc. This documentary witnesses his latest campaigns and explores the personal and environmental history of this controversial marine conservationist. Written by R.C.
Himself
Ópera prima del reconocido fotógrafo y biólogo marino Rob Stewart. Se trata de un documental que ofrece una visión de los tiburones que nada tiene que ver con la imagen ofrecida por la mítica película de Steven Spielberg, que hizo de este animal un monstruo, para el imaginario colectivo, que podía y debía ser eliminado sin piedad. Rob Stewart cuenta cómo los tiburones han sobrevivido a varios cataclismos de la Tierra, hasta qué punto son necesarios para mantener el equilibrio y cómo, sin embargo, están en peligro de extinción. Rodado en aguas con gran población de tiburones como Cocos Island, Costa Rica, las Galápagos y otras muchas localizaciones, trata también de la explotación y captura de estos animales y de la corrupción que se deriva de los beneficios de su pesca y de la terrible práctica del aleteo.
