David Hannan's
Coral Sea Dreaming - Awaken
After many years dedicated to filming and editing in glorious High Definition, David Hannan's new underwater masterpiece is coming out now.
Over 84 extraordinary minutes, Coral Sea Dreaming – Awaken enters into the very heart of life – and death – on a coral reef. It is a story that spans 500 million years and stars some of the most exotic and wondrous marine creatures on earth. Coral is the planets greatest natural architect, and coral reefs boast the highest biodiversity of any ecosystem.
Emmy Award-winning cinematographer David Hannan has filmed for 7 years to create this magnificent testimony to our extraordinary undersea world, set to an original score by Tania Rose. We meet thousands of reef inhabitants, from ancient turtles to feeding sharks, adorable pygmy seahorses and savage sea slugs, witness a manta ray ballet and courting octopus. Specialized state-of-the-art High Definition technology captures these lives with unprecedented intimacy, illustrating elaborate courtship displays, mating rituals, feeding frenzies, intense night-time predation, cannibalism and chemical warfare.
Many of the sequences have never been filmed before. Some may never be filmed again. Corals have survived 5 mass extinctions. But can they survive us?
Filmed over 2000 dives on three great coral reef ecosystems; The Great Barrier Reef, Ningaloo Reef, and Papua New Guinea, Coral Sea Dreaming - Awaken is a celebration of reefs now under threat of climate change and ocean acidification. There is much to be done to safe-guard these precious ecosystems for future generations. And very little time to do it.
David Hannan is renowned not only for his filmmaking, but also the conservation that is activated by his films. This is the driving force behind his work.
News and Announcements
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Coral Sea Dreaming - Awaken Press Release
Press Release: Feb 10, 2010
→ Download the current CSD - Awaken Press Release - 10 Feb, 2010 as a PDF document.
Product Information
Coral Sea Dreaming - Awaken - Out Now in Australia / NZ
Coral Sea Dreaming - Awaken is a mesmerizing and poignant celebration of one of the planet's great natural wonders.
This is no ordinary DVD or BluRay disc, it's a fully featured package of options - with many different ways of exploring David's world of coral reefs. Viewers can select to have a music-only experience, and enjoy the film as an exceptional relaxation video.
Additionally, pop-up text with creature identification or interesting facts about ocean issues can be activated, turning the program into a powerful educational resource.
For a more classic documentary experience, ‘switch on’ an informative narration track, or peek 'behind the scenes' with David Hannan or Tania Rose. Alternatively, selected scenes or even the whole program can be played to loop on 'repeat' turning the screen into a fascinating marine aquarium.
Enhancing the package is the inclusion of 60 minutes of additional, specially created 'virtual decor' in different styles for creating unique moving digital art displays.
David Hannan's all new "Coral Sea Dreaming - Awaken" is available in Australia & NZ from an outlet near you. Try your local ABC store, JB-HiFi, BigW, Sanity, EzyDVD, WOW Sight & Sound, and many other specialist retailers. You can also purchase online by choosing one of the links below. Other territories and new soundtrack CD will be available during 2010.
→ Download the 1sheet poster here - 2.5 MB PDF document
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Ocean Issues
Long committed to conservation, David and his team became more aware of global ocean environmental issues during the filming and editing of Coral Sea Dreaming - Awaken.
Beyond obvious issues of pollution and over-exploitation of fisheries, it's increasingly clear that Carbon Dioxide (C02) emissions are impacting on the world's coral reefs with dual threats of rising sea temperatures and ocean acidification. Not just reefs, but whole food webs based on krill and plankton are under threat of extinction from changing water chemistry as oceans absorb CO2 emissions.
A special feature of the DVD and Blu-ray disc is the 'Ocean Issues' text overlay that can be activated as an introduction to the many pressures marine environments face today.
For more information about Ocean Acidification, the other CO2 problem independant of climate change, visit the website here:
Coral Sea Campaign
Visit the official website to find out more and see how you can help protect Australia's Coral Sea...
→ Please start by signing the online petition: www.protectourcoralsea.org.au
Our Serengeti of the Sea
The Coral Sea is a unique part of the Pacific and an Australian historical treasure. Lying adjacent and seaward of the Great Barrier Reef, the Coral Sea is one of the few places remaining on Earth where populations of spectacular biodiversity have not been severely depleted, especially seabirds; sharks, including whale sharks; humpback, minke and killer whales; dolphins; turtles; billfish such as marlin and sailfish; tuna; a myriad of invertebrates, many of which are unknown to science.
The proposed Australian Coral Sea Heritage Park would be a highly protected, safe haven for globally threatened species that are rapidly declining around the world.
Barry TVC from Protect Our Coral Sea on Vimeo.
Visit the official website to find out more and see how you can help protect Australia's Coral Sea:
http://www.protectourcoralsea.org.au
Other information is also available on the AMCS website:
http://www.amcs.org.au/WhatWeDo.asp?active_page_id=164
Follow the story and video clips of "Project Lihou", a 10 day expedition to remote islands and reefs located in the Coral Sea: http://www.amcs.org.au/WhatWeDo.asp?active_page_id=540
History
About the Original Coral Sea Dreaming
First released in 1992, David Hannan's "Coral Sea Dreaming" is now considered a classic video that broke new ground and inspired millions of people to see our marine world in a new way.
One of the people originally involved with the project said recently: "it was phenomenal !"
Over the years, several editions of "Coral Sea Dreaming" have been released around the world and are now rapidly becoming collectors items.
Sit back, relax and dive into the spectacular undersea world of the Great Barrier Reef.
Discover exotic fish of every color of the rainbow.
"A beautiful, beautiful film"
-- National Geographic
This website and a sister site www.reefdvd.com began as support for the 1999 USA release of 'Coral Sea Dreaming Special Edition' with Mill Reef Entertainment and DVD International, back in the days when DVD and the Internet was a new frontier.
Today David Hannan's all new Coral Sea Dreaming - Awaken is in release from 4 Feb 2010 in Australia and New Zealand and available from an outlet near you.
David has also captured the many moods of Antarctica and Australia's Coast. They are available within these Blu-ray titles: Antarctica Dreaming and Serenity - Southern Seas.
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