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HAND. LINE. COD

By Justin SIMMS

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2016

HAND.LINE.COD follows a group of “people of the fish”—traditional fishers who catch cod live by hand, by hook and line, one at a time. Their secret mission? To drive up the price of fish.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2016

Short Cuts

Cinefest 2016

Selection

Atlantic Film Festival 2016

Selection

Planet in Focus International Environmental Film & Video Festival -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2016

Selection

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FRENCH-CANADIAN
- Duration
- 13 mn
- Director(s)
- Justin SIMMS
- Writer(s)
- Justin SIMMS
- Producer(s)
- Annette CLARKE (NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA/ OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA)
- Synopsis
- Set in the coldest waters surrounding Newfoundland’s rugged Fogo Island, Justin Simms’ short film HAND.LINE.COD. follows a group of “people of the fish”—traditional fishers who catch cod live by hand, by hook and line, one at a time. Their secret mission? To drive up the price of fish. After a 20-year moratorium on North Atlantic cod, the stocks are returning. These fishers are leading a revolution in sustainability, taking their premium product directly to the commercial market for the first time.
  
  Simms takes viewers deep inside the world of the brave fishers returning to past methods that hold tremendous potential for the future. Travel with them from the early morning hours, spend time on the ocean, and witness the intricacies of a 500-year-old tradition that’s making a comeback.

HAND. LINE. COD

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