Rob Stewart (filmmaker)
| Rob Stewart | |
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Stewart c. 2012
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| Born |
December 28, 1979 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Died |
c. January 31, 2017 (aged 37) Alligator Reef, Florida, U.S. |
| Occupation | Photographer, filmmaker |
Rob Stewart (December 28, 1979 – c. January 31, 2017) was a Canadian photographer, filmmaker and conservationist. He was best known for making and directing the documentary films Sharkwater and Revolution. He died at the age of 37 in a scuba diving incident while in Florida filming Sharkwater: Extinction.
Stewart was born in 1979, in Toronto, Ontario, where he was raised. He began underwater photography as a teenager, and became a scuba-diving trainer at eighteen years old. He attended both Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute and Crescent School in Toronto as a youth.
For four years, Stewart worked as chief photographer for the Canadian Wildlife Federation's magazines, and worked as a freelance journalist. He won awards for his journalism. He held a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Western Ontario, and studied zoology and marine biology in Kenya and Jamaica.
Stewart got the idea to make the movie Sharkwater at age 22, when he found illegal longline fishing in the Galapagos Marine Reserve. He travelled through fifteen countries for the next four years, studying and filming sharks, and going undercover to confront the shark fin industry.Sharkwater went on to win more than 40 awards at top film festivals. His follow-up film, 2012's Revolution, builds on Sharkwater, examining environmental collapse. In 2013, it was the highest grossing Canadian documentary, and it received 19 awards from global film festivals.
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