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)
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 - Andy Lawrence
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 - Andy Lawrence
Green Ocean Gold crew at HIFF (L-R), Oscar Carmichael (underwater camera), Olaf Lawrence (director/editor) & Finley Apps (underwater camera).
Student Royal Television Society Awards - Devon and Cornwall 2025 - Winner (Best Camera, Saving The Planet Category) - UK
Hawaiian International Film Festival - HIFF 2024 - Second Place Silver Winner (Enviromental Category) - Hawaii, USA
Earth Stories 2025 - Winner Best Documentary, Best Student Film - UK
FECEA - Festival Internacional de Cinema Escolar de Alvorada 2025 - Winner Best Documentary - Brazil
60 Second Short Film Fest 2025 - Winner Best Environmental Film - Virginia, USA
Pan-Atlantic University International Student Film Festival 2025 - Winner Best Documentary - Lagos, Nigeria
Frome International Climates Festival 2025 - Winner Best Documentary - Frome, UK
Buntingford Shorts Youth Film Festival 2025 - Winner Best Environmental Film - Hertfordshire, UK
International Festival of Red Cross and Health Films 2025 - Winner Best Documentary Film - Varna, Bulgaria
Los Angeles Student Film Festival 2024 - Finalist - Los Angeles, USA
LMC Films Student Film Festival 2024 - Semi Finalist - Atlanta, USA
Golden FEMI Film Festival 2025 - Nominee - Atlanta, USA
Nuem Underwater Film Festival 2024 - Honourable Mention - Herzegovina, Croatia
The Science Film Festival 2025 - Official Selection - Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America
