PROGRAMME 2020

The first films of the new programme have been announced!

MAIDEN
The skipper Tracy Edwards has a big dream but no crew and no boat – tiny problems compared to the chilly head wind and open machismo the 26-year-old Englishwoman is met with by the male dominated sailing scene of the 1980s.
On September 2nd, 1989 time is up: Edwards enters the prestigious Whitbread Round the World Race with her boat Maiden and history’s first all-female crew. The ridicule by the press and their opponents soon turns into disbelief as Edwards wins the second leg of the race in her class. MAIDEN tells the singular story of a pioneering voyage – 33,000 nautical miles towards equality.


DIVING DEEP – The Life and Times of Mike DeGruy
A guy like Mike DeGruy had to be born in a place like Mobile, Alabama. Here, where five rivers meet the ocean, his fascination for water and all life within it became obvious at an early age – as did his unbridled energy and will to explore. After finishing a degree in marine biology DeGruy found a camera or rather it found him, sending him on his life’s trajectory of ocean exploration and education. DeGruy became one of the most prolific and skilled ocean cinematographers, a fierce advocate for ocean protection and a principal witness of the oceans’ precarious state. DIVING DEEP is not only a tribute to DeGruy’s life but also a celebration of the principal emotion DeGruy exuded and still elicits in all his work – a sense of wonder.