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Online Short
27 mins | 2024
Liz Smith

Changing Seas - Sharks in Belize: Jaguars of the Sea

The Belize Barrier Reef is home to a diverse array of top predators. Local fishers leverage their generational knowledge to help marine scientists and fisheries managers keep shark populations healthy for all.

Screenings
Online Only
October 28, 12 PM PDT - November 3, 11 PM PST
Online at FHFF.org
Online at FHFF.org
Online:
October 28 - November 3

Sponsored by:

Friday Harbor Film Festival

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Filmmaker Q&A:

(following each in-theatre screening)

About

The Belize Barrier Reef is home to a diverse array of top predators like lemon sharks, nurse sharks, tiger sharks, and Caribbean reef sharks. In a unique collaboration, local fishers leverage their generational knowledge to help marine scientists and fisheries managers keep shark populations healthy for all.


Produced by South Florida PBS, Changing Seas is a marine science series focused on ocean issues and exploration. The series goes to sea with scientists, giving viewers a first-hand look at how oceanographers and other experts study Earth's last frontier.

FILMMAKER BIO

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Freelance Producer since Season 12

Liz is an Emmy award-winning producer and writer with 20 years of experience transforming science stories into engagement and action. She has produced documentaries for South Florida PBS since 2019, and she co-produced the feature documentary YOUTH v GOV (2020), streaming on NETFLIX.

Liz has sailed aboard research vessels in the Pacific Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Mediterranean Sea. She has explored 2,000-year-old Greek and Roman shipwrecks, searched for Amelia Earhart’s lost Electra, and assisted with search and recovery operations off the coast of Syria as part of Dr. Robert Ballard’s EV Nautilus team. She also served as the Director & COO of Conservation Media Group, where she designed the Catalyst Workshops to train and connect filmmakers and non-profits working on pressing ocean issues.

Liz holds an MFA in Science and Natural History Filmmaking from Montana State University and a BA in Astronomy from Whitman College and began her filmmaking career producing films about astrophysics at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. She’s been certified as an Advanced and Rescue scuba diver, a single-engine private pilot, and an NOLS WMI Wilderness EMT.

CREDITS

Narrator

Craig Sechler


Director/Producer/Writer

Liz Smith


Director of Photography/Editor

Sean Hickey


Videographer

David Diez


Lead Animation Designer

Norman Silva


Series Producer

Alexa Elliott

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