FHFF Tuesday: Shark Girl

A week from today at the Grange, it’s Shark Girl, part of the Friday Harbor Film Festival’s Tuesday film series

The film tells the remarkable story of 20-year-old Australian, Madison Stewart, to whom nothing feels safer or more natural than diving into shark-infested waters. Growing up by the Great Barrier Reef, she’s always treated these predators as family. But they’re vanishing from existence, and because of their bad reputation, few people seem to care. The documentary follows Stewart on her mission to protect sharks, a battle that began when she put her studies on hold, grabbed a camera, and set out to save these incredible, misunderstood creatures.

The documentary traces Stewart’s activism in Australia, where she projects films of her dive onto a wall in Chinatown to draw attention to shark finning, and meets with executives from the Woolworths grocery chain to discuss high levels of mercury found in shark meat from the Great Barrier Reef sold in the chain’s stores. (Ultimately, Woolworths declined to comment on the product, Stewart said.)

Running time: 58 minutes
Tuesday, April 7th at 7:00 pm at the Grange

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