A VOYAGE AGAINST TIME

A VOYAGE AGAINST TIME
Directed by Jonathan Ali Khan & Steve Mackay

Please view the 'Character led Human Interest' Wildlife Conservation Expedition Observational Documentary.

Synopsis

A VOYAGE AGAINST TIME certainly pushed our patience, tolerance, resolve, and professionalism to the max as anything that could go wrong, inevitably did go wrong throughout the duration of this production.

Jonathan our Producer, Bashar our Kayaker Team leader, Investor/Presenter, Kayakers Colin and Mansour, Elizabeth, Mazen and myself had to deal with the consequences of a 85 foot Turkish gullet The Katerina running aground, hitting rocks and sinking before I conducted a surreal instinctive evacuation of the stricken ship. Our crew and team survived electrical storms, car crashes, damaged and lost drones at sea, small ribs [boats] breaking down and sinking, and even our second vessel the Aquarius’s mast breaking during storms in the latter half of our Expedition in the Arabian Gulf as mother earth pushed us to the max. Bashar experiences the Gulf on the water, under the water and scales dangerous mountains in order to soak up the creation of God and bring it to others in this documentary! As Director & Director of Photography on three occasions I thought I would lose my life and certainly when Bashar was swept away by underwater currents in Oman whilst underwater filming I thought he was going to perish, however we dangerously wrestled with the elements to bring you this revealing unique adventure from The Gulf and its wondrous wild and marine life!

Despite the extremes, we were also indeed rewarded by mother nature with excellent spontaneous opportunities with Osprey, Dolphins, Dugongs, Cormorants, Terns, Flamingos, Whales, Stingrays, Sailfish and Turtles! We were truly blessed! There is no doubt that the results speak for themselves. We had to work hard at keeping morale up when at the start of this epic adventure everything was going wrong and the production took on huge delays and schedule adjustments, not to mention going over budget.

Nevertheless, at no point was failure ever an option - Please view A VOYAGE AGAINST TIME here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9sqR9kMnUQ

A VOYAGE AGAINST TIME was certainly the pinnacle of the work of Jonathan Ali Khan as a writer and a narrator. After viewing the masters of the final finished works that he edited I was blown away by the intricacy and sublime way to which Jonathan researched and crafted such beautiful facts and words to eloquently illustrate Bashar’s vision and mission K2O which evolved and gave birth to A VOYAGE AGAINST TIME.

REST IN PEACE - JONATHAN ALI KHAN

Sadly, Jonathan passed away of heart failure in late December 2019 in Dubai UAE.
He ran Wild Planet Films and thrived on the marvel of the natural world & his
particular focus was marine life... As an established Producer & Scuba Diver,
Jonathan headed up Sharkquest in the Middle East & Campaigned hard for
Cleaner Oceans. He struck up and harmony & synergy with Bashar Al Huneidi
and gave life to this project. It was a privilege to learn From him, his
creative talents, passion & experience. Jonathan Ali Khan will be sadly missed by all,
His writing & narration on this epic journey is sublime & sophisticated!
It would be madness for Jonathan to be overlooked as a pioneer wildlife
& conservation filmmaker after his lifetime dedication to the natural world..!

It would be a madness for Jonathan to be overlooked after his lifetime’s dedication the Natural World!

Sustainability

Our project and production was a huge challenge with the overarching goal of being a traveling message of conservation and raising awareness to the Gulf states, its people, its children and its public. The whole premise of using kayaks [manpower] to navigate through the Arabian Gulf was in complete opposition to the major role as global shipping lanes of the Straits of hormuz. It was the perfect message metaphor and pilgrimage of Bashar Al Huneidi and his pioneering vision of sustainability to The Gulf states by travelling from Kuwait, Saudi, Bharain, Qatar, Oman and then finishing in UAE at Khor Kalba!

We collected plastics from any remote islands we encountered after filming, and reported on depleting fish stocks within the region through investigation and observation. All members of the team received a Climate Change recognition Award from the Municipalities of the UAE and the Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Omani Authorities which was a highly regarded honour. Maybe we could take it a stage further and be recognized for a Sustainable award? Now that would be awesome! and out of this world!

Due to sudden death of Jonathan Ali Khan, we were unable to output the right codec for a High Resolution feature so as a result we are looking for completion funds to strip down the feature and return it to broadcast quality for networks. We would like to hear from Networks, Acquisitions and were looking for Sales & Distribution for this feature. We have two new projects ready to pitch named 'Lions in Lockdown' and 'Yukon 1000 2021 - Team Cork' An Irish wildlife and kayaking adventure in Canada & the USA.