New technology is causing a shift in production viewing patterns. The advent of podcasts and wireless downloads have given us new tools to reach a young demographic. Our short productions are created to 1) intrigue an audience unfamiliar with the beauty and threats to our ocean, and 2) deliver edu-taining short videos that students can download and watch on-the-fly. We hope this will capture the attention of a new generation and bring them to the ocean, to dive, swim, enjoy and protect our oceans.
Imaging Foundation Introduction
Description: Introduction to the Imaging Foundation and what it does as an organization.
Outline: Imaging Foundation’s cameras show the threats that underwater as well as other animals are experiencing from overfishing, poaching, shark-finning, traps, fish-bombing, trash in the oceans, and human greed. Our cameras are our weapons. We document proof of what is happening to our oceans, as well as the beauty that we observe. The end challenges viewers to save the planet.
English - Cocos Island National Park 30th Anniversary
Description: Presentation for the Costa Rican government to commemorate the 30th anniversary of this World Heritage Site.
Outline: Cocos is the largest uninhabited island in the world and one of the last refuges for large pelagics. Aerial photographs of the island, as well as different views of Cocos inland. Throughout, commentaries about the history of the Island, how it received its World Heritage site designation and its importance. Then depicts the underwater world of Cocos, its biodiversity and large schools of marine life. Then end announces upcoming attraction: Virtual Cocos.
Sharkkeepers a Call to Action
Description: We want to protect sharks from extinction. People argue that it would be better if all sharks were dead.
Outline: People think all sharks are killers. This video is a whimsical representation of underwater life in Cocos Island. It shows divers, sharks and other marine life co-mingling in their natural habitat, without any threats to any. After all, sharks are “just a hair flip”, nothing to be scared about. Costa Rican music provides the background and beat for this production.
Cocos Island Poaching
Description: Short video stands witness to illegal poaching activities in Cocos Island.
Outline: People from 10 Nations and 10 nationalities discuss actual activity that took place in Cocos Island during their visit to this World Heritage Site in November 2007. Poaching vessels and underwater long-lining are observed and documented by members of the Imaging Foundation expedition Team. Members also discussed how these activities can affect and impact marine life in Cocos.
Let Live
Description: Avi Klapher’s production about Cocos Island, sharks and today’s poaching threat.
Outline: Depicts schools of hammerheads and whitetip reef sharks along with large schools of sealife in Cocos Island. Baitballs and other interaction underwater. Sharks being fished, caught in hooks and fishing line as well as discarded. Aftermath of illegal fishing: sharks shown as trash on boat deck.
Cocos Island Shark Corridor
Description: Alex Rocco, infamous voice of the Godfather’s Moe Greene, narrates “Rocco the Shark” introducing the viewer to Cocos Island.
Outline: Rocco introduces viewers to different sharks and other marine life in Cocos Island in a friendly and educational manner. Explains the importance of marine corridors as safe passage for sharks and other pelagics between Cocos Island and the other major “safe haven marine parks”. Makes a plea of help from viewers.