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Tedioso como dois mergulhadores apostando corrida no fundo do mar: "Santuário", (Sanctum, 2011)

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Vijftien jaar geleden: "Sanctum" van Alister Grierson

Sanctum is een zogenaamde overlevingsfilm (hier vindt men informatie over het filmgenre, met een lijst van verwante films) die mede geproduceerd werd door James Cameron. De film werd geregisseerd door Alister Grierson en geschreven door John Garvin en Andrew Wight. De hoofdrollen worden gespeeld door Richard Roxburgh, Rhys Wakefield, Alice Parkinson, Dan Wyllie en Ioan Gruffudd. Continue reading…

Vijftien jaar geleden: "Sanctum" van Alister Grierson

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Minimalist Video Game Posters - Created by Andrew Wight

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Game of Thrones Sigils - Created by Andrew Wight

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Playstation Era Minimalist Posters - Created by Andrew Wight

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‘James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge 3D’ to Let James Cameron Fulfill Supervillain Submarine Dreams

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Helicopter Crash Kills Two Documentary Filmmakers

The documentary community, and really the whole world, received sad news over the weekend as two prominent filmmaking talents were killed in a helicopter crash in Australia while scouting for shooting locations. One of the victims was Mike DeGruy, an Emmy-winning cinematographer who worked on the undersea series The Blue Planet (and its feature offshoot, Deep Blue) and other nature programs for the BBC, National Geographic and Discovery Communications. The other was Andrew Wight (pictured, right), a producer who collaborated with director James Cameron on his docs Ghosts of the Abyss, Aliens of the Deep and Expedition: Bismarck, as well as the trapped divers drama Sanctum, which he also co-wrote. They both were involved with Cameron's Last Mysteries of the Titanic.

Wight had recently been named managing director at Cameron's new production office in Melbourne and the duo are said to have been working on a project for the Titanic Oscar winner. Wight was also piloting the helicopter, which went down Saturday south of Sydney. It's not known what caused the crash or the exact nature of the job at hand. 

Cameron issued a statement over the weekend, which you can read below via The Hollywood Reporter.

“Mike and Andrew were like family to me. They were my deep-sea brothers, and both were true explorers, who did extraordinary things and went places no human being has been. They died doing exactly what they loved most, heading out to sea on a new and personally challenging expedition, having fun in the way they defined it for themselves, which was hardship and toil to achieve something never done before. They were passionate storytellers who lived by the explorer’s code of humor, empathy, optimism, and courage. Their deaths are a tremendous loss for the world of underwater exploration, conservation, and filmmaking.”

Cameron went on to comment:

“Andrew was kind and loyal, full of life and a sense of fun, and above all, a careful planner who stressed safety to everyone on his team every single day. It is cruelly ironic that he died flying a helicopter, which was second nature to him like driving a car would be to most people.”

DeGruy, he said, was “one of the ocean’s warriors. A man who spoke for the wonders of the sea as a biologist, filmmaker and submersible pilot, and who spoke against those who would destroy the sea’s web of life. He was a warm, funny, extremely capable man and one of the world’s top underwater cinematographers. His passion for exploration and for the wonders beneath the sea was boundless.”

The head of National Geographic, for which both men worked, also issued a statement:

“We are grieving over the loss of these two extraordinary friends,” said Tim Kelly, President of National Geographic Society, in a statement. “Andrew and Mike were part of our extended family at National Geographic, and our hearts, prayers, and thoughts go out to their loved ones. They accomplished so much but were taken too early, and our world is greatly diminished by their leaving it.”

Our hearts go out to the friends, family and co-workers of deGruy and Wight as we mourn two incredible contributors to documentary cinema.