H2eau: Science et Sport de l’Extrême
Geneva Museum of Natural History – February 2, 2013
After his successful conference at the 43rd edition of the Festival International du Film Alpin des Diablerets on August 11, 2012, William Winram was invited to present his latest film at the 9th edition of the “Month of documentary films” held at the Geneva Museum of Natural History.
This annual event aims at providing educational as well as entertaining films for all ages during the least sunny month of the year in Geneva: February. This year’s theme for participating documentary films was “Water”. Titled H2eau: science and extreme sports, the month-long event showed two dozen films from February 2nd to 27th, on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays over a span of 36 showings.
Organized in partnership with the department of sports of the City of Geneva and the Museum of Natural History, this edition was officially launched with a special event organized on Saturday February 2nd.
William presented his work in his film titled Diving with Sharks, an 18-minute short which documented shark expeditions between 2009 and 2013 in the Mexican Pacific Ocean. In fact, the latest expedition was just finished mid January 2013 leaving only less than three weeks to edit the film for the premiere at the Museum.
Over 250 people turned up for the showing, some of whom could not watch the film because the auditorium had filled beyond its capacity. After the film, William graciously answered questions from the crowd of all ages, in the company of Laurent Egli, the film director and cameraman for the latter images of the documentary. The Q&A session lasted for over an hour.
Diving with Sharks was shown along side prestigious films such as Raphaël Blanc’s Arktos: Mike Horn’s inner voyage and Jacques Perrin’s Oceans.
Many thanks to Mr. Pascal Moeschler Director of communications at the Museum, Mr. Jacques Ayer, Museum Director, as well as Mr. Sami Kanaan, Administrative Councillor of the City of Geneva and Mr. Thomas Wenger, deputy director of the city of Geneva’s department of sports.
