The Last Reef 3D (Short 2012)

The Last Reef 3D: Directed by Luke Cresswell, Steve McNicholas. From the Academy-Award nominated creators of the Broadway show STOMP and the award-winning film Wild Ocean, The Last Reef is an uplifting, inspirational large-format and 3D cinema experience capturing one of nature’s more vibrant and diverse wonderlands. Exotic coral reefs, vibrant sea walls in the sub-arctic pulsating with anemones and crustaceans: these biodiversity hot spots are as vital to our lives as the rainforests. Shot on location in Palau, Vancouver Island, French Polynesia, Mexico, and The Bahamas using groundbreaking 3D cinematography, The Last Reef takes us on a global journey to explore the connection of our cities on land with the ocean’s complex, parallel world of the coral reefs beneath the sea.

“This opens with a nuclear test at the Bikini Atoll in 1946. After multiple nuclear blasts, the coral reef had been utterly destroyed but more than 50 years later, the reef has returned to health. Nature is resilient but human pressure is greater than ever.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis has beautiful underwater cinematography and I can only imagine how it looks in 3D. It looks nice in 2D. While it tells us that the reef are threatened by global warming, it could be more clearer with the speed and the likelihood of the destruction. It could show the nature of bleaching and the extent of the damage. It may be asking too much from a 40 minute short meant to amaze visually for a 3D audience.”