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Sea of Shadows
Buyer: National Geographic Documentary Films
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National Geographic Documentary Films acquired the winner of the Sundance Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary in a $3 million worldwide deal. The film, whose executive producers include Leonardo DiCaprio, is presented like a thriller as it follows environmental activists, the Mexican navy, and undercover investigators. Together, they go up against Mexican cartels and Chinese mafia, which are harvesting the valuable totoaba fish and, in doing so, are destroying the habitat of the world's smallest species of whale.
Buyer: National Geographic Documentary Films
Release date: N/A
National Geographic Documentary Films acquired the winner of the Sundance Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary in a $3 million worldwide deal. The film, whose executive producers include Leonardo DiCaprio, is presented like a thriller as it follows environmental activists, the Mexican navy, and undercover investigators. Together, they go up against Mexican cartels and Chinese mafia, which are harvesting the valuable totoaba fish and, in doing so, are destroying the habitat of the world's smallest species of whale.
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