Director Tasha Van Zandt went to great lengths to make her documentary A Life Illuminated – and to enormous depths. More than 3,000 feet, in fact.
Van Zandt descended over half a mile to the ocean floor in a submersible to film the work of pioneering marine biologist Dr. Edie Widder, who has observed and studied more deep ocean phenomena than perhaps anyone alive. Her discoveries have “transformed how we perceive life in the deep sea,” the filmmaker writes. “[Widder] began her career at a time when the deep sea was considered a dark, empty void. But Edie dared to
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