This multi-award-winning film was directed, filmed and edited by Gage Hingeley and Julian Clark.
Neva Sullaway is Ocean Magic Productions Film & Books Project Manager
The Fish in the Forest
Multi-award-winning film · Newport Beach Film Festival selection
Doc and Ceci White return to their favorite Alaskan cruising grounds in this short film exploring the extraordinary inter-relationship between the ocean, rivers, salmon, bears, and the abundant rainforest.
An exquisite glimpse into a highly productive landscape, the film celebrates a world where marine life and the coastal wilderness are inseparable.
Selected for the Newport Beach Film Festival 2020, the film remains a proud milestone for the team—even though COVID-19 moved the anticipated red-carpet celebration online.
Filmed and edited by Gage Hingeley & Julian Clark
Baja to Bering
A 40-year Journey of Discovery
Follow Doc and Ceci White as they plan their voyages, in multiple legs, from La Paz, Baja California, to the Bering Sea, Alaska. In this short film, we learn a bit about Doc White’s background as a Swift Boat skipper in Vietnam, a USN fighter pilot, commercial airline pilot, and captain and builder of his research vessel R/V Mystique. We learn a few surprising details about his wife, Ceci, originally a “cowgirl” from Arizona, turned avid diver, photographer and co-captain of Mystique, where they’ve spent the majority of their married life at sea. There is more to the story in their book: Baja to Bering A 40-Year Journey of Discovery, where Doc, Ceci & Neva explain their motive for sharing books and videos of their ocean journeys.
— If you learn about and come to love animals, ancient lands, marine life, the Ocean; you will want to help protect and preserve our most precious natural resources.
Swift Pacific Adventure
Doc and Ceci White set out on another Ocean Magic voyage aboard Beneteau’s Swift Trawler 47, accompanied by the film crew—Gage Hingeley and Julian Clark, documenting their journey along the coastal Pacific, delivering the newly launched yacht from San Francisco to San Diego.
But the sea had other plans. Unfavorable weather conditions, high winds and seas, prevented the team from achieving their original goal of diving in the waters of the offshore islands, as they headed south. Instead, they pulled in for a respite in Monterey Bay to visit the famous Monterey Bay Aquarium. Then they continued their journey south, with a brief dive off Catalina Island. The shortened adventure reminds us how, at sea, conditions can change in an instant and we must adapt accordingly.
Doc’s years—either in the air, on the sea, or diving under the sea—always informs his decisions.
Filmed and edited by Gage Hingeley and Julian Clark.
Saltwater RX
SALTWATERRx, directed and filmed by Brett Hoffman, is a multi-award winning documentary. The film exemplifies the healing properties of immersion into the ocean. It follows four people, each facing physical and emotional challenges and how their love for the ocean helps support their healing.
Medical experts explain the biomechanics of what happens to the mind and body when cradled by the sea.
“I’m grateful to have been a part of this inspiring film, as an editorial consultant.”
This multi-award winner was filmed and edited by director Brett Hoffman.