Three ocean dwellers confront a problem that threatens the place where they feel most alive and look towards a sustainable future in seaweed.
**Currently screening at international film festivals**
This 12-minute documentary short explores seaweed plastics - a technology that is on the brink of transforming biochemical industry and solving a devastating problem that impacts the world's oceans. Bioplastics degrade naturally, leaving no trace within four weeks of entering the ocean, contributing to the preservation of wildlife, habitats and ultimately preventing the proliferation of microplastics that blight human life across the globe. The film aims to convey the problem of plastic pollution through the realities of three people who live and breathe the ocean each day and by examining solutions that might have a wider reach. To these ends, the crew also filmed with a community-driven company in Wales, pioneering seaweed plastic technology in the UK and one  of the world’s leading scientists of seaweed plastic.
 "The energy rises from the sea to my hands and at that moment we are one, we are one energy."​​​​​​​      Curly Steve (contributor to Green Ocean Gold)

 Green Ocean Gold crew at HIFF (L-R), Oscar Carmichael (underwater camera), Olaf Lawrence (director/editor) & Finley Apps (underwater camera). 

2nd in prize category at HIFF - Hawaii International FIlm Festival in the environmental shorts category) - Honolulu, Oahu, USA, 2024
Sound and Vision Short Film Night, Soho, London, 2024
Lift of Global Sessions, London, 2024
Braga Science Film Festival, 2024
Crew
Director - Olaf Lawrence
Producer - Charlie Greaves
DOP - Ollie Gambie
Underwater DOP - Osker Carmichael
Underwater DOP - Finlay Apps
Sound recording & mixing - Winston Tija
Editor - Olaf Lawrence
Colour - Ollie Gambie
Music - Tommy 2000 & Oliver Stack
Edit and project advice - Filmmaking for Fieldwork

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