While filmmaker Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel) has long enjoyed provoking audiences with his horror films, he’s found no such satisfaction in the case of his latest feature Fin, which documen…
debuted on Discovery+ July 13, recently claiming the Ischia Film Festival’s Award for Best Documentary.In conversation with Deadline, Roth explains how he came to make Fin, how viewers can get involved in his effort to protect sharks, and his starry featureDEADLINE: What led you to directShark After Dark: Yeah. I’m a total shark geek. I grew up outside Boston, going in the ocean, terrified of them, believing 100% I would be eaten by a shark.
So, I pitched the idea [for the film] to Pilgrim Productions—to Craig Piligian…and [to] [Lionsgate President, Worldwide TV and Digital Distribution] Jim Packer, who’s a diver. They said, “If you can get on a fishing boat, we’ll give you the money to make this doc,” and it started me down this five-year journey of making the film. I thought [production would take] a couple of months, but it took me all over the world, and I just went deeper and deeper.
And what I uncovered is so shocking. It’s like the entire world is involved in a Ponzi scheme, and Planet Earth, the citizens of Earth are the ones getting robbed. The entire industry is an industry of death that’s based on money and greed, and there’s so much propaganda to act like everything is fine that it really reminded me of the nefariousness of the tobacco industry.
DEADLINE: How did you figure out how to grapple with such a massive story, and such a logistics-heavy production? Who did you consult with?: The first person I brought in was Dr. Reese Halter…[who’s] an environmental scientist. I had Reese on as a guest on. I said, “Reese, where do I start?” and he said, “Talk to Gary Stokes and Peter Hammarstedt at Sea Shepherd.”
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