Must save this species & provide a sustainable economy for the illegal fishing community to cut the heart out of the cartel & mafia

While success is not guaranteed, Sea of Shadows dramatically demonstrates how and why the battle continues to be fought.

Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times

Richard Ladkani’s Sea of Shadows, which bristles with drama and a panicky sense of righteous anger, uses the potential extinction of one little-known species of whale to symbolize a far larger and potentially globe-spanning problem.

Chris Barsanti

Slant Magazine

Ladkani’s camerawork is agile and sleek, and the editing is super-sound, so even with a complicated web of crime, corruption, socioeconomic tension, multiple languages, blurred-out faces and folks who operate in the dark, it’s easy to follow.