STOLEN SEAS
STOLEN SEAS
In order to make this documentary on Somali piracy, the filmmakers spent three years traveling to some of the world’s most violent locales. Utilizing exclusive interviews and unparalleled access to real pirates, hostages, hostages’ relatives, ship-owners, pirate negotiators and experts on piracy and international policy, Stolen Seas presents a chilling exploration of the Somali pirate phenomenon.
Through audio recordings and found video, the film throws the viewer right into the middle of the real-life hostage negotiation of a Danish shipping vessel: the CEC Future. As the haggling between the ship’s stoic owner Per Gullestrup, and the pirate’s loquacious negotiator, Ishmael Ali, drags on for 70 days, these two adversaries’ relationship takes an unexpected turn, and an unlikely friendship is born. Stolen Seas is an eye opening refutation of preconceived ideas on how or why piracy has become the world’s most frightening multi-million dollar growth industry.