"Sharkwater Extinction is a solid journalistic work that honours the man who made it." - NOW Toronto
“Never mind what Jaws and The Meg tell you, it’s safe to go back into the water. Safe for us, that is, not for the sharks. The globetrotting investigative documentary Sharkwater Extinction is an exposé on the brutally illegal shark-fin industry and an update of 2006’s Sharkwater. It’s also the late conservationist Rob Stewart’s final film.
“We watch as Stewart and his team travel from Costa Rica to Cape Verde to the Bahamas to Panama and to the ocean right outside Los Angeles. Atrocities against sharks are secretly filmed, with ugly images interspersed with moments of exquisite underwater beauty. A species and an ecosystem are at peril, as was the Toronto filmmaker Stewart, who died in a diving accident during the filming. And so a gutsy film about a planet’s delicate balance takes on a poignant tone, with themes of mortality unavoidable.
“Stewart believed people would rally to the shark cause if only they knew the gravity of the situation. The film is now made, the word is out and Stewart more than did his part.” - Globe & Mail