Aquaman‘s Jason Momoa narrates Deep Rising, a timely documentary that explores the connection between sustaining and preserving the deep ocean floor and battling the energy crisis. Momoa, who also serves as an executive producer, explains that 4,000 meters underwater on the ocean floor, an energy revolution is underway. The trailer then shows how corporations want to strip mine the ocean floor, disturbing the environment in pursuit of resources to be used making electric batteries.
Matthieu Rytz (Anote’s Ark) directs and produces, with Momoa, Sébastien Lépinard, Julie Lépinard, Shari Sant, Shannon O’Leary Joy, Tiffany Schauer, Jim Angell, Annie Roney, Addison Fischer, Olivia Fischer, and Dona Bertarelli executive producing.
“Ultimately, I want Deep Rising to plant seeds of hope and inspire us by making it clear that a green energy revolution is still within our reach if we are willing to radically put an end to our destructive behaviors and create a truly regenerative economic and social architecture,” stated Rytz.
Deep Rising currently sits at 78% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes after premiering at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Abramorama’s planning a limited release on October 27, 2023, followed by a wider expansion in Laemmle theaters on November 3, 2023.
Deep Rising Synopsis:
Five years after Anote’s Ark, Matthieu Rytz returns with this up-to-the-minute tale of geopolitical, scientific, and corporate intrigue that exposes the machinations of a secretive organization empowered to greenlight massive extraction of metals from the deep seafloor that are deemed essential to the electric battery revolution. Narrated by Jason Momoa, Deep Rising illuminates the vital relationship between the deep ocean and sustaining life on Earth.
The documentary also follows mining startup The Metals Company, as it pursues funding, public favor, and permission from the International Seabed Authority to mine wide swaths of the Pacific Ocean floor. Rytz’s fly-on-the-wall access observes extraction companies as they co-opt scientific studies and deliver pitches to investors, proposing how the costs of industrializing our Earth’s last pristine environment can be justified to access metals they claim will benefit all of mankind.
As oil conglomerates pivot investments to deep-ocean mining, Deep Rising examines humanity’s destructive pattern of extracting materials for profit and asks why we don’t choose, instead, to develop abundant resources to solve our energy problems.
