Changing Seas - Sharks in Belize: Jaguars of the Sea
Liz Smith
27 mins | 2024
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.
Sponsored by:
Friday Harbor Film Festival
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.
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
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.