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Team Ocean Quest - The Impossible Journey

Follow the finale of the underdog team of junior high/high school students as they compete in the $7 Million XPRIZE Ocean Discovery competition and find out through overcoming every possible challenge, accidents, and adversity they are able to do more than anyone ever thought. This 3-year journey is captured in high quality documentary format in sequential time from humble beginnings in a classroom to the award ceremony in Monaco. This inspiring documentary is a must for every young or old that needs to be reminded that "nothing is impossible".

  • Shane Vermooten
    Director
  • Diane Vermooten
    Producer
  • Danny Kim
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Feature, Student
  • Genres:
    education, documentary, motivational, students, oceans, competition, xprize, family, children
  • Runtime:
    52 minutes 11 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 11, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    80,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States, Monaco
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    HDV 4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Shane Vermooten

Shane Vermooten is a Mandela Washington Fellow and a Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South African. As a director his work has won awards around the world, most recently picking up silver and craft Loeries for a marketing campaign he conceptualized and directed. He also won best narrative short at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles and was nominated at the Black Reel Awards for outstanding foreign film. His short film Freedom Road was screened alongside William Kentridge's work at the City Gallery in Wellington, New Zealand. Bypass, Shane's debut feature film, starring Natalie Becker, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Deon Lotz and Greg Kriek, exposes the dark world of organ trafficking and resulted in a 40% spike in Organ Donation registrations. His first startup, Cinemo, provided pan-African video content to over 400 000 people via low-end mobile phones before it was sold to another Video-On-Demand platform.

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