DIRECTED BY ALICE WESLEY-SMITH
NOW YOU SEE ME
SARAH & SEBASTIAN is honoured to present Now You See Me, a series of short films directed by photographer & filmmaker Alice Wesley-Smith, designed to create awareness around the challenges facing Australia’s most endangered marine wildlife.
the series
BEHIND THE LENS
NOW YOU SEE ME is a collaboration between SARAH & SEBASTIAN Co-founder and Creative Director Sarah Munro and ocean photographer, filmmaker and fellow scuba diving enthusiast Alice Wesley-Smith.
To share their love of the ocean and raise awareness around conservation issues close to their hearts, the duo travel to remote locations across Australia to document the precious marine life that inhabit these incredible underwater environments.
The short films series features original diving footage, compelling prose by writer Anna Harrison, and narrations by various voices connected to ocean conservation. Each film is designed to highlight the challenges facing our world beneath the waves and the importance of conserving Australia’s most vulnerable ecosystems.
SHARKS AND RAYS
he third film in our Now You See Me series illuminates the sharks and rays that inhabit the east coast of Australia, from the unparalleled perspective of legendary conservationist and ocean photographer Valerie Taylor AM. Narrated by Taylor herself, her engaging musings of the ocean and enduring relationships with sharks are imparted in prose penned
by Anna Harrison.
