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12.12.2022 - 19:05 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: UK outfit Make Waves (The Great Green Wall) and science-focused U.S. producer HHMI Tangled Bank Studios (All That Breathes) are teaming on feature-length documentary Blue Carbon (working title), an environmentally-focused musical piece fronted by Grammy-nominated producer and DJ Jayda G with music from Wu-Tang leader RZA and Brazilian artist Seu Jorge.
Nicolas Brown (The Serengeti Rules) is directing and executive producer is City Of God and The Two Popes filmmaker Fernando Meirelles. A North American pre-sale is being finalized.
Pic is being co-produced with financier HHMI Tangled Bank Studios and supported by Conservation International alongside a number of European broadcasters, including NDR which has pre-bought German rights.
Blue Carbon is the term given to three coastal ecosystems – seagrass meadows, mangroves and tidal marshes – that fringe most continents. Some of these ecosystems can sequester from the atmosphere up to four times more carbon per hectare than tropical forests.
The feature will be fronted by producer, DJ and marine biologist Jayda G as she explores how we are losing these unsung ecosystems at an alarming rate, how Blue Carbon can help mitigate the effects of climate change, and how we can protect the fragile ecosystems from further destruction. The project will take in shorelines from Senegal and Vietnam to France, Miami, Brazil and Colombia.
In a similar vein to Make Waves’ 2019 Venice Film Festival title The Great Green Wall, Blue Carbon will combine music and science, dance-culture and art.
Due to be completed in spring 2023, producers are lining up an education and outreach campaign that will generate grassroot activism around blue carbon ecosystems and they plan to engage
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