Watervisions Information

Watervisions,founded in 1980, has been Canada's premier feature film underwater cinematography company since its inception. Its list of credits is extensive and includes the underwater scenes of "Jumanji", "Whale Music", "Free Willy III", "Intersection", "Magic in the Water" (winner of a Genie award for cinematography), "The Mermaid Chair", "Deeply", "The Great Gatsby", "Mercy", "Children of a Lesser God" , and TV series such as "Stargate Atlantis", " X-Files", "The L-Word", "Supernatrual", "Defying Gravity", "Due South", "The Guard", "Dark Angel " and Emmy nominated "Into the West" and "Traffic" and numerous commercials. In 2003 Pauline walked the Hollywood Red Carpet, with Jamie Lee Curtis, Stockard Channing, Lily Tomlin and others at the Women in Film Cyrstal and Lucy Awards to accept the Kodak Vision Award for Cinematograpy , which is presented to a filmmaker for outstanding achievements in cinematography. Early in 1997, Kodak, to promote their new film stock, selected Watervisions to film Giant Manta Rays in Hawaii. The result was so spectacular that it has now been shown in 47 countries. Complementing its work on Canadian locations in the movie and TVindustries, Watervisions has traveled extensively on documentary andfeature film assignments - from the high Arctic to the nucleargravesite of WW II wrecks at Bikini Atoll. These projects have beenopportunities for additions to the new stock library and haveprovided Watervisions with the knowledge of a wide variety ofpre-scouted locations. In 1995 Watervisions won a BCMPA Leo Award for Cinematography and was a Finalist at the New York Film Festival, for the documentary "A Last Wild Salmon". A one hour film, it was shot almost exclusively underwater and produced in it's entirety by Watervisions.