Sri Lanka whale Movie

Award winning author Phillip Hoare and underwater videographer Andrew Sutton is working on a film featuring whales in the waters surrounding Sri Lanka and also explore the Island nation, its people and culture.
"We are very keen to expand the themes we have been exploring while filming whales into a greater picture of what Sri Lanka holds for the world and what the world holds for Sri Lanka," Hoare said.
"There has been such a way that Sri Lanka has been portrayed in the media outside which is probably frustrating to Sri Lankans"

"Our idea in this film is to present a wide and more rounded picture of Sri Lanka", Hoare said.

Naturalists say Sri Lanka is one of the easiest places in the world to spot whales because whales come very close to the shore.


A high concentration of blue whales and sperm whales has been repeatedly spotted in the seas off Dondra Head in the south of the island during the months of January to April.
Philip Hoare won the Samuel Johnson prize for non fiction in 2009 for his book Leviathan or The Whale which he says was written out of inspiration over the evolving human relationship with whales.

Hoare and expert underwater whale photographer Andrew Sutton have been filming whales off Dondra Head in the South of the Island for the past few weeks.

Hoare, who shares an intense fascination for whales, believes that the adaptability of these giant yet placid animals to adverse conditions throughout centuries could be symbolic of Sri Lanka and its people.

"They symbolize the time when they were threatened animals; they were nearly brought to extinction but they have come through that now to an optimistic future"

"In away it's a symbol of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has had this bad past for the past 20 years since the war with the LTTE",

"That's the way people have perceived Sri Lanka; a country beset by violence"

"That's not the whole story. You only have to come here and see what a beautiful country it is and we want to present that whole story in a poetic way", Hoare said.

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