Awards
2014
Ocean Issues Award
2014 BLUE Ocean Film Festival & Conservation Summit
Stelvio National Park Award
2014 Sondrio Festival – Documentary Film Festival on Parks
Wildscreen Festival
2014 Jury’s Special Selection for Screening
Grand Prize
2014 Vancouver Festival of Ocean Films
Best Conservation Film
2014 New York WILD Film Festival
Spirit of Activism Award
2014 Wild & Scenic Film Festival
Peoples’ Choice Award
2014 Waimea Ocean Film Festival
Best Film Ocean Environment
2014 Waimea Ocean Film Festival
2013
Special Consideration
2013 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival
Best Professional Documentary
2013 Real to Reel International Film Festival
Best Feature / Best New Zealand Film / Best Science Communication Film
2013 Reel Earth Environmental Film Festival
Winner: Moving Mountains
2013 Mountainfilm in Telluride
Best ‘Call 2 Action’ film: The Last Ocean
2013 Boulder International Film Festival
Royal Reel Award – Documentary
2013 Canada International Film Festival
2012
SPADA Independent Producer of the Year: Peter Young
2012 New Zealand Screen Production and Development Association Awards
Reviews
“The Last Ocean is a spectacular, informative and urgent piece of work… Through Peter Young’s lens, the Antarctic looks wild and wonderful”.
Graeme Tuckett, Dominion Post 10 August 2012
“Young’s film is absorbing, politically and ecologically informative, nightmarish, and excellent, albeit disturbing, cinema”.
Sam Edwards, Waikato Times, 8 September 2012
“I hope you are inspired by this movie”.
John Kerry, US Secretary of State
“Peter Young’s ravishing footage lends emotive force to his detailed account of the case against fishing Antarctic waters”.
Bill Gosden, 2012 New Zealand International Film Festival
“A frightening omen of our planet’s future… told with truth, humour and brittle, ephemeral beauty”.
Melenie Parkers, Yahoo Entertainment NZ, 2 October 2012
“The Last Ocean is a powerful statement about humanity’s urge to chase resources over every inch of the Earth.”
Michael White, Nature 498, 6 June 2013