Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Deep Rising” showing Nov. 10-15 at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres.
“Deep Rising” is a tale of geopolitical, scientific and corporate intrigue: investigating the future of the world’s energy crisis and how it is currently tied to the fate of the deep ocean floor, which is intricately tied to our survival.
Filmmaker Matthieu Rytz exposes this up-to-the-minute tale of geopolitical, scientific, and corporate intrigue that exposes the machinations of a secretive organization empowered to greenlight massive extraction of metals from the deep seafloor that are deemed essential to the electric battery revolution.
Narrated by Jason Momoa, “Deep Rising” illuminates the vital relationship between the deep ocean and sustaining life on Earth. The documentary also follows mining startup The Metals Company, as it pursues funding, public favor, and permission from the International Seabed Authority to mine wide swaths of the Pacific Ocean floor.
Rytz’s fly-on-the-wall access observes extraction companies as they co-opt scientific studies and deliver pitches to investors, proposing how the costs of industrializing our Earth’s last pristine environment can be justified to access metals they claim will benefit all of mankind.
As oil conglomerates pivot investments to deep-ocean mining, “Deep Rising” examines humanity’s destructive pattern of extracting materials for profit and asks why we don’t choose, instead, to develop abundant resources to solve our energy problems.
“Deep Rising” will be shown at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres Nov. 10-15. Showtimes will be Friday and Saturday, Nov. 10 and 11 at 4:00 p.m.; Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 12, 14 and 15 at 6:30 p.m.; and Monday, Nov. 13 at 3:30 p.m.
Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.
