Entries by Shark Bay Films

Our television sales list

How we sell our films I was recently asked how we sell our films. I have to admit that it’s not the greatest business model! When I have an idea I approach my agents with it. If they think that the film will sell then we enter into a distribution agreement for the finished film. […]

Promotional Film Production

Here’s a promo film we put together from our underwater stock footage for Fourth Element  They used it very successfully at the DEMA show in Orlando at the end of 2019. They played the video on large screens on their stand. So it ran as a loop tape so was screened throughout the whole the […]

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Leatherback Turtles in Gabon

Leatherback Turtles – Final shoot of the documentary And this is the very last location and the last adventure of our latest documentary project – Filming Leatherback Turtles in Gabon. Check our previous blogs for our trips to Guinea Bissau and Costa Rica… Planet’s greatest turtles Leatherback turtles are the giants of the turtle world. […]

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Wildlife Filming – Costa Rica

Wildlife Filming… Wildlife Filming is never predictable. They said we’d never get the shots! They said that it took the BBC a year to get their footage. We allowed ourselves a window of 10 days and didn’t really hold out any hope. But on the very first day the turtles started arriving… We had an […]

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Filming Turtles in Guinea Bissau

Filming turtles on Poilão Island Fionn and I have just got back from filming turtles in Guinea Bissau. It’s probably the remotest place I’ve ever been – Poilau Island, way out in the Atlantic – 2 days on small open boats – it doesn’t even feature on a Google search. Here’s a photo. Turtle Island… […]

PADDLE AGAINST PLASTIC POLLUTION – THE CROSSING!

Well a year in the planning and the Paddle Against Plastic Pollution finally happened. At dawn on a perfect July Monday morning the team set off from Porthcurno Beach at the very west of Cornwall to head for Scilly. We mentioned the plan in a blog over a year ago. And at last conditions favoured […]

TO RUSSIA WITH LOVE – PART 5

The long road home… When planning the trip, Finland’s Archipelago Sea had intrigued me. Have a look for yourself on a map. The more you zoom in the more islands you discover. It reminded me of staring at the sky on a clear cloudless sky. The longer you look, the more stars you see… It’s […]

TO RUSSIA WITH LOVE – PART 4

And now the best part of the trip… So far the trip has had its ups and its downs. Particularly in the early stages! My fault – we left too early in the Baltic boating season to get the best out of it. As a result we encountered empty harbours, closed fuel stations, and not […]

Barrel Jellyfish

Barrel Jellyfish Every year they appear off our Cornish coast in swarms. As big as a dustbin lid these aliens have been drifting through our oceans for over 500 million years. Jellyfish – the very name strikes terror – and these are giants! Yet jellyfish are some of the most ancient and simple animals on […]

To Russia With Love Part 3

St. Petersburg…at last! After all the rollercoaster of departing from Estonia – will we or won’t we make it? – yes, we make it to our Holy Grail of this trip – St. Petersburg. According to the shipping agent we are the first of only 4 boats from the UK that will visit the city […]