DEEP RISING

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2023 ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD

DEEP RISING

WED, 12/6, 4:30pm, 93 min BAY STREET THEATER

Director: Matthieu Rytz
Producer: Matthieu Rytz
Editor: Elisa Bonora

A gripping tale of geopolitical, scientific, and corporate intrigue that exposes the machinations of the International Seabed Authority, a secretive organization empowered to greenlight massive extraction of metals from the deep sea floor that are deemed essential to the electric battery revolution. The film examines humanity’s destructive pattern of extracting materials from this last pristine environment for profit.

Matthieu Rytz is a producer, curator, photographer, and award-winning film director, and is also the producer of the World Press Photo event in Montreal. A visual anthropologist by training, for ten years his passion for photography and ethnology has led him across the globe to photograph cultural and human diversity. His first documentary, Anote's Ark, about the realities of climate change, was globally acclaimed.