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WHALE NATION

SAT, 12/7, 3:00pm, 85 min
SAG HARBOR CINEMA

Director Jean-Albert Lièvre in attendance for Q&A

Director: Jean-Albert Lièvre
Producers: Julien Seul, Marc Dujardin
Editor: Cécile Husson
Cinematographer: Nedjma Berder

They’re Earth’s biggest creatures, yet still we know very little about them. Jean-Albert Liièvre’s visually arresting documentary – with a soundtrack to match – is based on the revolutionary book by Heathcote Williams and was filmed with a small crew over the course of several years, exploring the rich and complex societies of whales and what we must do to protect them. The film, which is narrated by Richard E. Grant, tells the story of a beached humpback whale from both the perspective of a young girl and the whale itself.

Jean-Albert Lièvre is a French documentary filmmaker , photographer, and author. His first film, The History of a Yucatan Cisal Rope made in 1992 became a household name for wildlife and environmental documentaries in France. Through his subsequent films based on observing nature, Lièvre has become an “accidental environmentalist.”