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Shark Girl

Duration: 1 x 60'

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This multi-award winning, powerful and often moving film, tracks a journey from Australia to Mexico and the Caribbean, venturing right to the heart of the luxury shark fin soup and cheap shark meat industry.

Conservationist, filmmaker, activist, delinquent – 19-year-old Madison Stewart has been called many things, but to her friends she’s simply ‘Shark Girl’.

Growing up on the Great Barrier Reef, Madison soon realised the creature she loves most is disappearing fast. Driven by fear, every year up to 80,000 sharks are killed in this UNESCO World Heritage Site for cheap fish steaks and luxury shark fin soup - both are laced with dangerous toxins that can cause serious brain damage. 

Turning passion into action, she sets out to stop the slaughter and shatter our perception of these alleged man-eaters. Armed with just a video camera, she fearlessly swims with tiger sharks, feeds a rowdy gang of Caribbean reef sharks and removes fishhooks from the mouths of oceanic silky sharks. 

SHARK GIRL tells the inspiring story of Madison Stewart and her passionate fight to save the creature most of us fear - sharks!

Awards:

  • New York Festivals: Gold World Medal (Environment & Ecology Category)
  • USA International Film & Video Festival: Silver Screen Award (Environment & Ecology Category)
  • UK Wildscreen Film Festival: PANDA Award(Environment & Ecology Category)
  • China Gold Panda Film Festival: Special Jury Award (Nature & Environment Category)
  • USA BLUE Ocean Film Festival: Best of Festival and Best Broadcast TV Program
  • France Festival Mondial De L’Image Sous-Marine: Award for Environmental Awareness
  • USA Friday Harbor Film Festival: Audience Award ‘Tales From The Heart’
  • New York WILD Film Festival: Best Advocacy Film
  • San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival: Wildlife Award
  • Germany Green Screen International Wildlife Film Festival: Best Marine Film Award
  • Germany Green Me Film Festival: Best Youth Film Award
  • Germany CineMare International Ocean Film Festival Kiel: Ocean Conservationist Festival Award

For ABC Australia

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