Bluefin - Award Winning Documentary

NFB, 53:18, Canada, Colour. 2017

Distributed by Gravitas Ventures (international),

& NFB (Canada)

Available for streaming and broadcast

For screeners, festivals, educational & community screenings

Bullfrog Films (US), NFB.ca (Canada)

contact: info@nfb.ca

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Raindance Red Carpet Interview with Director John Hopkins:

Broadcast by CBC’s Doc Channel, January 2020

Noted Screenings:

Hot Docs: Films that Changed the World Series, Hot Docs Cinema 2018

The 2018 World Climate Change Summit, sponsored by the Canadian Embassy for Culture and Silicon Valley, and the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival

Ocean Tracking and Dalhousie University for World Oceans Day (2018)

Carl Safina and the New York Explorer’s Club for World Oceans Day (2018)

Oceanwise for top Toronto Chels, 2018

Toronto Explorers Club

Newfoundland Environmental Association, Cornerbrook (2019)

Green Party Leader Peter Bevan-Baker (Official Opposition) recognizes the international success of Director John Hopkins' Bluefin (NFB) in the PEI Provincial Legislature. Bevan-Baker urges legislators and Canada's Department of Fisheries to more to protect the fragile ocean ecosystem and depleted species still found in the surrounding waters of Prince Edward Island, as located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Famed Oceanographer Sylvia Earle with Director John Hopkins

at the Reception following Bluefin won the Wildlife Award at the 2017 San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival

Bluefin is a film which, for the first time, allows us to experience endangered bluefin as the extraordinary wild animal they truly are - rather than misunderstanding them and seeing their only value as sushi on a plate. It is time we finally understand that they are as important to the oceans as tigers, elephants and panda bears are for our continents.

Producer/Director/DP John Hopkins

Bluefin was honoured by Raindance as one of “five documentaries made within the last decade that best showcase these environmental issues” - 2018 World Environment Day. In 2018, Bluefin was picked up by California distributor Gravitas Ventures making it available to over a billion subscribers from such online platforms as: Hulu iTunes, GooglePlay, Amazon Prime, Vimeo Plus and Sony PlayStation. Hopkins’ doc has already been broadcast in Germany, RT (Russian Television Network) and Spain with more broadcasts pending. The NFB has launched Bluefin to 150 libraries across Canada. Bullfrog Films has picked up US and Canadian Educational Rights and the film has been garnering outstanding reviews.

WINNER - 2019 Festival at Browns Point, Tacoma, Washington

WINNER - 2017 Grand Winner, Best Feature Documentary, California Film Awards

WINNER - 2017 San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival Wildlife Award

WINNER - 2016 Best Atlantic Filmmaker Award Lunenburg DocFest

NOMINATED - 2018 World Toronto Open Film Festival - Best Documentary

NOMINATED - 2017 Raindance Film Festival - Best Feature Documentary

NOMINATED - Social Justice Competition and Official Selection, US Premiere Santa Barbara International Film Festival

NOMINATED - 2017 Golden Sheaf Award Yorkton Film Festival - Science/Nature/Technology

Opening Night Film See & Sea Busan, South Korea

An Official Selection at 24 international Festivals Film Festivals, including The Blue Sky Documentary Film Festival, Missoula, Montana

NOMINATED 2020 Blue Ocean Film Festival, Martha's Vineyard

Find Bluefin latest updates on Twitter: @BluefinDoc

Clips and festival highlights on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/bluefindoc