No this is not some post to direct you to my other work, this for once, is actual information about what you were following this blog for back in 2012... wow has it really been that long? 455 days since I left Nova Scotia at the end of our second lobster shoot on the south shore. I'm looking back on it now and it actually seems like forever ago. And now I live here. I live in the province I was just going to for a filming trip. Because the story's out here. It's not back in Ontario, or our on the prairies, it's here in the maritimes.
It's pretty wild to think about it, this little lobster story has become such a huge part of my life. I can't get away from it, every time I think we're done chasing leads or funding or that we know everything, more stuff comes in. New interested backers, new places to go, new stories to cover always when you least expect it. For a long 10 months Brad was doing it on his own out here, hitting interviews and covering things like the PEI lobster fishermen strike. He was covering this thing the whole time. Even since I've been here we've gone on another trip down to the south shore to shoot as well as PEI and we're planning to go to Grand Manan Island in New Brunsick next month! We've got a more complete picture of the Lobster industry than we ever had back in 2012. I dare say we're getting to be experts on the industry. And even when we don't know the answer to our own questions, we always know where to go to find out. We have become the "lobster documentary guys" out here and we've even got people coming to us, offering to be interviewed and documented. Even stranger still, we have to turn some of them down!
Yes it's been a long, long road. And it looks like it will be longer still, we have a whole years worth of shoot dates lined up for our documentary, and are tentatively hoping to release Lobsterland, early next year. Yes you heard me right Lobsterland. It's our new title for the project, while originally we called it Lobster Inc, that title really doesn't quite capture the right feel for our story anymore. In fact if I'm not mistaken we were always of the impression that Lobster Inc. was a working title anyway, a simple play off of documentaries like Food Inc. But Lobsterland is all for real. Becuase this story, as it unfolds seems less about some industrial machine, and more about the people and the places where lobster is caught. That's what really hangs in the balance here, lobster will always be fished, but the manner in which it continues to be fished will have a massive impact on the communities were our lobster fishermen live, Lobster-land, if you will. That's what's at stake. That's why our title is what it is.
And so, with all of this in mind I have spent the last 2 months working on a trailer. As we go through all our footage and line up new shoot dates, we needed something to show people. We needed an accurate portrayal of what we were doing, because our previous trailer is almost 2 years old and doesn't fit the bill at all. It's too heavy handed, has poor quality video, doesn't portray the reality we now know to be the truth and we stopped showing it to people almost as soon as we got out here last time.
No, what we needed was the real deal, a real trailer that tells everyone the kind of movie, LobsterLand is going to be. We've been quiet too long! So here it is: The Lobsterland Official Trailer!
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