My Pilot, Whale

Directed by

Alexander Gratovsky

Genre

documentary film, family film

Country

Russia, Spain

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker and a diver freedive in the open ocean to interact directly with wild pilot whales. The short documentary shows their close encounters without scuba gear or cages.

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What happens

My Pilot, Whale is a 2014 short documentary film directed by Alexander and Nicole Gratovsky, demonstrating direct communication between a human and free pilot whales in the open ocean. The entire underwater part was shot without diving equipment; both the operator and the person appearing in the frame are freediving. The film’s premiere took place in Marseille as part of the World Festival of Underwater Images in November 2014 and then, during the year, the film won several prizes, and was repeatedly nominated and selected in the official programs of European and American film festivals. In Russia the film was first shown on 30 March 2015 in the Angleterre cinema club in St. Petersburg. Before the official premiere, several fragments of the film were shown on the inner arches of the Peter and Paul Cathedral on Maroseyka in Moscow during the audio-visual event "Night in the Cathedral" organised by the Dolphin Embassy. The film first aired on Russian television on 20 January 2016 during the Observer program on the Culture channel. After participating in international film festivals, the full version of the film was posted on the Internet for free viewing. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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