Echoes of Laguna
Feature documentary, in production, 2026
A feature documentary about a 150 year cooperative fishing tradition between wild bottlenose dolphins and artisanal fishermen in southern Brazil, one of the rarest partnerships between humans and wildlife on Earth, told at water level, without narration.
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For a century and a half, wild dolphins and net fishermen have worked side by side, the dolphins herding fish toward the shore and signaling the exact moment to cast. No one trained them. No one owns them. It is a partnership passed down through generations, on both sides of the water.
The film follows the oldest masters of this tradition through a single fishing season, as the fish grow scarcer, the young leave for the cities, and one question grows louder: what happens when a culture this rare has no one left to inherit it?
Currently in production, open to international coproduction, broadcast, festival, and impact partners, get in touch.
