Special Q&A with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter and Director David Abel
The Picture House Regional Film Center will host a special screening of the captivating documentary IN THE WHALE: The Greatest Fish Story Ever Told on Sunday, March 3rd at 3:00pm in Bronxville. Following the screening, there will be a special Q&A with the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and director David Abel.
IN THE WHALE chronicles the true story of a Cape Cod lobster diver who survived to tell the tale of being swallowed by a humpback whale, and the events that followed when the reclusive fisherman was thrust into the international limelight. Ultimately, it’s a love story — how a fisherman’s love for the sea and a father’s love for his family helped him survive in the whale and has helped him survive in another whale, his depression.
Director David Abel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who covers environmental issues for The Boston Globe. He is also a journalism professor at Boston University. Abel’s work has won an Edward R. Murrow Award, the Ernie Pyle Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation, and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Feature Reporting. His most recent film, “Entangled,” which was broadcast by PBS’s World Channel, was nominated for a 2022 Emmy, won a Jackson Wild award, known as the Oscars of nature films, and Best Feature Film at the International Wildlife Film Festival, among other awards.
Abel previously co-directed and produced “Sacred Cod,” which was broadcast by the Discovery Channel. He also directed and produced two films about the Boston Marathon bombings, which were broadcast on BBC World News and Discovery Life. His other films include “Lobster War,” which won “Best New England Film” at the Mystic Film Festival, and “Gladesmen: The Last of the Sawgrass Cowboys,” which won the Miami Film Festival’s Knight Made in Miami Award. Abel, who began learning to make films as a Nieman fellow at Harvard University, is IN THE WHALE’s producer, director, writer, and cinematographer.
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