One More Dead Fish

Allan Forbes
Stefan Forbes

Allan Forbes
Stefan Forbes

Documentary
Short Film

More About One More Dead Fishfrom Directors and Producers Allan and Stefan Forbes

My family spent our summers in a small fishing community in Southwest Nova Scotia, observing firsthand the Canadian government’s short-term, industrialized, assembly-line approach to managing the fisheries and the environmental destruction it wrought. My father, a lifelong activist, felt strongly that we had to tell this story. We made the film on a shoestring budget, soon running out of money for sound people, which forced me to shoot, record sound, and edit by myself – talk about independent media! But I was inspired by my 82-year-old Dad rousting me out of bed at 3 in the morning to go out in a fall gale and shoot fishing boats in 30-foot-wave.

Handliners in Nova Scotia are still desperately trying to survive, eking out a meager living on tiny quotas, while bottom trawlers rake in short-term profits, destroy the environment, catch spawning females, and discard huge amounts of fish. We hope our film can spread the word about the importance of handlining. If we all make conscious purchasing decisions and pressure our lawmakers to act, we can be part of the solution!

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Stefan Forbes, Director and Producer

Stefan Forbes has written and directed many awareness campaigns through his socially conscious production company InterPositive Media. He recently created a series of PSA’s for the Food Bank of NYC with Charlize Theron, Mike Myers, and The Edge, and he has directed Susan Sarandon, Rosie Perez, Josh Hartnett, Julia Stiles, and Matthew Broderick for groups such as The United Way. He has produced, shot and directed many music videos for bands such as Aaron Carter, Smilez & Southstar, and George Clinton w/ the P-Funk All-Stars. Currently Mr. Forbes is directing an unscripted show for A&E featuring celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito, and is directing a feature-length political documentary in association with producers Noland Walker and Alex Gibney.

Allan Forbes, Jr., Director and Producer

Allan Forbes, Jr. (1919-2006) was an anthropologist, ethnographic filmmaker, and former Guggenheim fellow who directed and shot documentaries in Europe and America for companies such as the BBC. He wrote numerous articles and papers for such journals as World Archaelogy, Plains Anthropologist, Pennsylvania Archaeologist, and The Boston Review. His films include La Carera Oficial (1955), about Holy Week in Seville, No Governors (1958), about street musicians in London, March to Aldermaston (1955), about a famous peace march in England, The Anonymous (1958), about street children in Naples, and The Lands of our Ancestors (1967), about a Seneca reservation in upstate New York dislocated by a US Army Corps of Engineers dam.