The director of the “Last Deadline” spoke about Manta Rai

U “Last diving“The director Cody Shehi follows Terri Kennedy, the former hell of Angel was turned by Manta Rai, on his personal journey in Mexico More Cortez.

After being in prison in prison, Kennedy, a naval veteran, reprimanded life and moved into a sailboat anchored in the sea of ​​Cortez in the 1980s. He lived on a boat named Erotica. Between ship’s entertainment, Kennedy found the peace that was looking for when he formed an unexpected relationship with the Diva, the 22nog Ocean Mantarous Air that Kennedy named Villa. The fish would hit his wings against the hull of Kennedy’s sailboat, signaling that he wanted to swim with Kennedy. 19 years old, Kennedy kept Villa returned as they explored the ocean depths. Kennedy took numerous videos of his time with Villa and other man’s rays, which allowed the scientific community to study the fish extensively.

“Last Diving” follows Kennedy, 83, while returning to the sea Cortez after a few decades in search of one last drive with Villi.

Sheehi met Kennedy in Mexico eight years ago. The director was simpletely skeptical for Kennedy’s stories about riding a giant mantage air. It was changed when Kennedy showed Sheehi its huge collection of household videos that documented most of his underwater excursions with Villa.

“Suddenly I realized Terry had the ability to inspire a whole new generation in the way Jacques Cousteau made so many years earlier,” Sheehi says. “Everyone should know that the ocean is in trouble. But for me, it’s personal. During the last 20-plus, I looked at the ocean. I wonder if my son will inherit the empty ocean soon?”

Sheehi is currently working with John Slossom to find distribution for the doctor.

Variety He talked to Sheehi in Maine’s Camden Inti. A film festival where “last diving” is shown on 13. September.

At the beginning of the doctor, it is clear that Terry hesitates to talk about his past, but you managed to open it. How did you do that?

Sheehi: I think someone who was willing to ask hard questions and sit with him and some of the harder part of his life and help him reconsider him and the processes, was hard terri. He buried a lot. But I believe that this film was in the end of the form of therapy for him.

In the production of Doctor, he says, “This film contains pictures to animal detriment and characterized human interactions with mantardous rays that are no longer allowed or recommended.” So no one, including Harry can drive mantare?

Terry has made a lot of behavior that dive community does not allow more and for good reason. Manta is very friendly, so it would be easy to touch and do things like what Terri did, and Manta loves it. But now so many divers that the dive community has adopted good practice attempts not to touch everything in the ocean all the time, because it could destroy the ocean. So, the days of riding Manta air do not have.

You worked with a documentary whispered Mark Monroe to help you structure the movie. How did he affect the film?

Mark has an incredible ability to understand the story and say that in this way, “I have not arrived at the end of the film, and I would have started it, and then I would be possible, and then it could be possible, and then eventually went and shot him.

So you wrote a doctor before you started recording?

Yes. I tried to imagine how the story could be structured as possible before shooting. It is obvious that when shootings start, things change and record things you didn’t expect. I guess I’m writing all this, it’s probably a form of self-soothing.

“Last Diving” debuted at the Tribec Film Festival at the beginning of this year. CIFF is your fourth fest with a movie. What did you like about Camden?

You are tending a lot of people from the industry at this festival. They also choose just a few movies, which is nice and everyone knows it will be a time of fun.