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‘The Last Of The Sea Women’: Oscar-Contending Doc Goes Deep With “Bad-Ass” Guardians Of Ancient Tradition
Director Sue Kim and producer Malala Yousafzai team for 'The Last of the Sea Women,' a documentary on South Korea's "bad ass" free divers.
“She told me, ‘They’re considered Korea’s mermaids, and they harvest marine life and they’ve been doing this for centuries, and they basically are the breadwinners of Jeju Island.’ …It sort of imprinted on me permanently.” She told us at the Toronto International Film Festival, where The Last of the Sea Women premiered, “I hope that through this documentary, people will be able to understand what we mean when we talk about risks to climate because this is an issue that we see in the papers. The film explores another threat not only to the haenyo but to marine life in general in the area: the Japanese government’s plan to release into the ocean treated radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant.
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