Bonnie Carini
My life has always been profoundly connected to nature, especially the sea, which in turn inspires my work as a writer and filmmaker. My current project began over a decade ago in the Faroe Islands. As I have a particular fondness for pilot whales and have spent a vast amount of time observing and filming them off the Island of Hawaii, where I live, I became aware of the grindadrap (the centuries old practice of herding and slaughtering pilot whales in the Faroes). I went to learn more and film a cross-cultural (Hawaiian/Faroese) documentary. As well as living close to nature, the Faroese have a culture rich in art, music, dance, language, and stories. I made friends with many musicians who came to Hawaii to share their music and collaborate with me on my film/music project. My Faroese experience has so far evolved into producing a short documentary, an award-winning music video and screenplay, which is currently in development. The golden strand of the story's braid is music.
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This is a song that I wrote for my movie project PILOT WHALE FOG, a story of two broken families, one from Hawaii and the other from the Faroe Islands, who are brought together by tragedy and music, but their cultural beliefs keep them in conflict until they are unified by a pilot whale. It is a piece, which celebrates Faroese and Hawaiian culture, the beauty of both archipelagos, and the pilot whales, who are still killed today in the Faroes for food in a mass slaughter referred to as the, "grindadrap".