Film Details

The first feature film produced by Cleveland’s Think Media Studios won the Directing Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Shot in East Africa with a cast of Somali non-actors, the film is a mesmerizing mix of action-thriller and art film in which a desperate young Somali fisherman reluctantly joins a band of pirates in order to support his family. Fishing Without Nets follows in the wake of A Hijacking and Captain Phillips, but is the first Somali pirate drama to tells its story from the bandits’ point of view. “An accomplished feature debut.” –Variety. “Sundance’s most beautiful film.” –The Wrap.