The Interview at Sea from the remotest Iceland to all over the world and first hints of an upcoming documentary
There is a good number of film festivals that deal with the ocean and the themes of the sea. We chose to apply in Iceland to Ocean Films Húsavík for a number of reasons.
It is a young but already established festival, but above all we were interested (because it belongs to us) in the mixture and alliance between cinema and research. We have already mentioned the close collaboration between researchers and the whale museum in the previous article on Ocean Films Húsavík.
Ocean Films Húsavík then fascinates us by its location at the extreme edge of already remote Iceland. Indeed, it takes at least 6 hours by car to reach the small town of Húsavík from the capital Reykjavík. This is why the festival also and above all lives and takes place online. The Interview at Sea had its international debut here. The English-subtitled version of the film was seen all over the world, and not just in Iceland, from July 17-31!
And again there will be a return. We were not able to schedule it for this year, but we will return to Iceland as researchers as well as filmmakers. In fact, a European research program on Aquaculture has been active since 2023, as a continuation of the study on capture fisheries from which The Interview at Sea derives, within which Iceland is one of the case studies we had already selected. Indeed, the island has experienced an exceptional development of the marine aquaculture sector in recent years that needs to be studied and understood.
