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A sailing family makes 20 ocean voyages over two decades, sometimes following the path of Captain Cook, but more frequently following nothing but their own hearts and the siren call of adventure.
Following Seas
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Surcando los mares, Bonnes Mers, Mari favorevoli, Vento em Popa
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USA
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
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14 Nov 2017
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Ireland15
26 May 2021
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France12
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France
26 May 2021
- Digital12 Prime Video
Ireland
14 Nov 2017
- Digital15
USA
09 Apr 2016
- Premiere Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
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MSPIFF 2017 #32
There is a bit of talking heads in this but most of the film is the Griffith family's 16mm footage from their adventures sailing around the world. The directors said in Q&A that they did send all that footage for one pass of cleaning since it had been sitting in cans in a basement in Hawaii for years and years, but they didn't clean it up too much and what a good choice that was. The damage and imperfections of the original 16mm pairs perfectly with the adventures that it's is documenting: even the physical film itself that you are watching* has gone through a long and arduous journey. At times it's almost as if the screen…
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Ich glaube jeder kennt das Gefühl, in manchen Momenten sein ganzes Leben, seine Pläne und Vorstellungen zu hinterfragen, nur weil man ausgelöst durch die mitreißende Lebensgeschichte eines Anderen, Facetten der Welt kennenlernt, die man noch nicht kannte…
"Following Seas" ist ein Dokumentarfilm über das Leben der Familie Griffith, insbesondere von Nancy Griffith, der zutiefst inspirierend, gefühlvoll und herzzerreißend ist. Er erzählt von dem Leben auf der See, unfassbaren Meerüberquerungen und Verlusten, die so schmerzlich sein können, wie das Salzwasser in den Augen.
Ein weiterer Beweis dafür, dass Dokumentationen, wenn gut inszeniert, mindestens genauso beeindruckend sein können, wie fiktive Geschichten.
PS. Ich bau' mir dann mal mein eigenes Segelboot…bis in 7 Monaten dann!🫡
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These people crashed their boat on a reef and refused rescue for another month because they were still taking measurements. They pulled the rusted engine out of the sea and got it working again on a desert island. Then they went to New Zealand and built a new yacht with their own two hands and used it to sail around Antarctica without a GPS while the lady was pregnant. This is why boomers call everyone snowflakes.
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história muito muito linda e triste...
deu vontade de largar tudo, viver em um veleiro e velejar até a antártica com o pedro -
I saw it at the Duluth Superior Film Festival. Someone in the Q&A asked if the editor got seasick while cutting the film.
That was a weird question.