EXCLUSIVE: Limonero Films has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Blue Carbon, an progressive environmental-themed documentary produced by MAKE Waves Media that options the participation of Grammy-nominated music producer and DJ Jayda Guy, Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA, and Brazilian musician Seu Jorge. Limonero, based mostly in London and Barcelona, will launch gross sales of the movie at Sunny Side of the Doc, the world’s largest documentary-focused market, which kicks off immediately in La Rochelle, France.
Blue Carbon, directed by Emmy and BAFTA-winning filmmaker Nicolas Brown (The Serengeti Guidelines) and government produced by Oscar-nominated director Fernando Meirelles and Sarah Macdonald, premiered on CNN earlier this yr.
‘Blue Carbon’
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“Filmed within the USA, Senegal, Vietnam, France, Colombia and Brazil, the documentary explores the comparatively newly-discovered potential of oceans to soak up way more carbon from the environment than even tropical rainforests,” notes an outline of the documentary. “This ‘Blue Carbon’ as scientists at the moment are calling it, may be present in salt-marshes, sea-grasses and mangroves, and have gotten more and more engaging investments for giant companies seeking to offset their emissions via carbon credit score schemes.”
“Blue Carbon,” in response to a synopsis, “is an environmental documentary that brings collectively music and science to uncover why listening to nature, and to one another, is vital for averting local weather disaster.”
La Rochelle, the historic port on France’s Atlantic coast, is a very applicable place to launch gross sales of Blue Carbon, given its seaside location.
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“I’m past excited to be representing this superb movie,” mentioned Pamela Martínez Martínez, founder and CEO of Limonero Movies. “Our relationship with MAKE Waves Media has been essential for the event of my firm from its humble beginnings. They’ve been colleagues, buddies and mentors, and I couldn’t be prouder to tackle this excellent story and current it to the world. The Sunny Aspect market is the proper place to begin sharing it with consumers.”
In an announcement, EP Sarah Macdonald mentioned, “We’re excited to be partnering with such a powerhouse as Pamela Martinez and her firm, Limonero Movies. This can be a wonderful, however vitally vital movie that deserves to be seen by as many individuals as doable.”
Jayda Man and reptilian buddy
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Blue Carbon is instructed via the eyes of Man, who isn’t solely a report producer and DJ however a marine toxicologist.
“Blue Carbon is so vital however folks know so little about it – I need it to be as nicely often called the Amazon rainforest,” Man feedback on the movie’s web site. “It has such potential to assist us fight local weather change, so long as we take heed to and be taught from the tales of individuals working to guard Blue Carbon. It’s made me hopeful about our future and has helped me really feel extra linked with mom nature. I hope that when folks watch this movie they really feel the identical approach.”
The documentary, with a rating by RZA that includes Seu Jorge, contains encounters with Florida manatees, American crocodiles, and humpback whales that depend on wholesome marine ecosystems.
Manatee and human meet nose to nose
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“On this movie we’re bringing collectively opposites — dance music and nature, or clubbing and conservation — with the intention of bringing new hope to new audiences,” noticed director Nicolas Brown. “Crucially, the movie raises the voices of individuals — in addition to the ecosystems — that sit on the entrance traces of the local weather and biodiversity disaster. It’s time to take heed to what they are saying!”
As Deadline reported in 2021, Blue Carbon is a part of a slate of environmental documentaries from Fernando Meirelles, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker identified for The Two Popes, The Fixed Gardener, and Metropolis of God. Saying the slate, he instructed Deadline, “There’s nothing extra pressing than the local weather disaster. Info is what can flip the tide. Our objective is to make movies that not solely inform, however that enchant and interact. For my grandchildren and the grandchildren of others, that would be the theme of my work till the day I die.”
