The film is about Abby, a child who befriends a magnificent wild blue groper while diving. When Abby realizes that the fish is under threat, she takes inspiration from her mother – a marine professor and activist – to battle poachers who threaten the fish and the coastal ecosystem it calls home.
Where was Blueback filmed?
It’s just so beautiful. Robert Connolly makes Bremer Bay a star in his new film Blueback, based on the novel by Tim Winton.
Bremer Bay is home to the biggest annual aggregation of killer whales in Australia.
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From the Australian Marine Conservation Society website
Tim Winton is an acclaimed author. He is AMCS’ Patron and a proud environmentalist. When writing about Blueback he said:
‘In 1997, a few years after I became honorary vice-president of the local branch of the Australian Marine Conservation Society, I published a little book called Blueback in which a woman and her son fight off a development juggernaut that threatens to destroy the lonely, pristine bay they live on. It was only a fable but in it I was wondering what it took to save a precious place. Some years later I’d have cause to wonder if perhaps I hadn’t unconsciously been rehearsing for a new phase of my life, because it was shortly after publication that I found myself in a battle for just such a place…
©Tim Winton in The Boy Behind the Curtain, published by Penguin Books.
Why AMCS loves BLUEBACK
The BLUEBACK story focuses on our deep human connection to the underwater world, belonging, and living a life in tune with the environment. It highlights why it is so important to protect our oceans, through well managed fisheries and marine parks.
This message of marine protection is central to AMCS campaign work; scientists say that we need to protect at least 30% of our global oceans by 2030. As well as establishing networks of marine parks we need to ensure that we tread lightly on our oceans: we must reduce marine pollution, make sure our fisheries are sustainable, and take action to address climate change.
BLUEBACK is a universal fable for all ages about friendship, family and the power of young people to make a difference for our marine environment; we hope that this film will inspire the next generation of ocean advocates.
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