The biggest underwater water imagery festival in the Asia Pacific is headed to North Sulawesi as the 10th Celebrate the Sea Festival 2011 is ready to bring the world's underwater splendors to the shores of Manado, from 23-25 September 2011 at the Sintesa Peninsula Hotel.
Howard & Michelle Hall,
world renowned film makers for the astonishing IMAX 3D productions of
Deep Sea and Coral Reef Adventure, are slated to attend the September
festival to share their adventures, along with National Geographic’s
deep-sea explorer, Emory Kristof, acclaimed among the
first to discover the wreck of the Titanic. Attendees can expect very
extraordinary presentations from a host of celebrated underwater
luminaries including Dr Mark Erdmann, Leandro Blanco, Eric Bettens,
Amanda Cotton, Steve Jones, Michael AW, Mathieu Meur, William Macdonald
and Indonesia’s very own award-winning underwater photographer Ronny Rengkung.
In association with the World Festival of Underwater Pictures, Le Festival Mondial de l'Image Sous-Marine
- Marseille – now in its 37th year, the Celebrate the Sea Festival is
seen as the most important underwater film and photographic event in
the world outside of Europe.
Staged at ten supporting resorts, the
shootout competition, held from 19 to 23 September is one of the main
highlights of Celebrate the Sea 2011. Competitors stand the chance to
win prestigious medals for Outstanding Achievement, Merit of Excellence
awards and the coveted title for the ‘Most Influential Shoot Out Underwater Photographer of the Year’ with cash and holiday prize of USD 5000.
The Festival’s international underwater
imagery competition also calls for entries from photographers and film
makers to compete in the seven categories, these are: Black and White
print, Color Print, Portfolio of Festival, Trio, Slide Shows, short
video and feature length documentary. Highlights of the weekend also
include screening of films and prints in the competition, slide shows
competition, children’s painting competition, photographic workshop,
dive travels, and an exhibition of marine arts & craft.
As in previous festivals, the event is
the platform for Ocean and Environment Australia to launch its annual
shark’s conservation campaign. Over 5000 children will compete in this
year Celebrate the Sea art competition and the finalists will be
invited to compete in the final round to win the prestigious Ambassador
for Sharks Award.
The Celebrate the Sea weekend at the
scenic Sintesa Peninsula Hotel Manado will be packed with seminars on
ocean conservation, climate change, underwater photographic workshops,
photographic exhibition and an international underwater film festival
featuring winning films from the World Underwater Pictures Festival.
Joining the panel of speakers & judges, you will discover the splendor of underwater North Sulawesi, most renowned for the Bunaken Marine National Park.
located atop the apex of the coral triangle. Oceanic walls, soft
coral canyons, extensive coral meadows, and intriguing muck dive
locations offer unparalleled photographic opportunities found nowhere
else in the world.
For detailed information, please log on to the event official website: http://www.celebratethesea.oneocean.com/
To gain an idea of the wealth of underwater life in the seas around Manado, visit our photo essay: The Deep Water Paradise of Kalasey Seas off Manado
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