Atlantic won the Best Irish Documentary at the Dublin International Film Festival 2016 and continues to cause waves as it was announced the winner of the 2016 SDGI Director’s Finders Series.
This prestigious award will grant Ó Domhnaill with the purpose that his documentary set out to achieve, to raise awareness of the exploitation that is happening on our Atlantic sea. The SDGI Director’s Finders Series will put Atlantic on a platform to showcase Ó Domhnaill's documentary to the Directors Guild of America Theatre in LA. If all goes according to plan, Atlantic will resonate with the guild and secure itself a distribution deal. This would allow the documentary to go global, open up the dialogue addressed in the feature with a cause to stop it.
Atlantic is a voice for the coastal communities who have been left devastated by the major corporations who are ruining their income whilst they drive deeper in the sea for oil. Focusing on three small fishing towns in Ireland, Norway and Newfoundland, Atlantic started off as a small commentary. However the deeper Ó Domhnaill delved the more evident the need for this story to be told on a larger scale became.
Atlantic gained the backing of the IFB, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation and the North Norwegian Film Centre who shared Ó Domhnaill's passion for spreading this dark truth of the Atlantic. Brendan Gleeson lended his voice to narrate the story of the Atlantic.
The Directors Guild of America Theatre takes place on June 17. Hopefully Ó Domhnaill's Atlantic will get the backing it deserves, spread the message conveyed in the documentary and put an end to the corporation greed that is destroying the sea and depriving these communities of a livelihood.

Atlantic from Risteard O Domhnaill on Vimeo.