On behalf of Suunto Diving UK Andy produced two films to encourage UK diver to take to their home sea and to encourage others into the sport.
Both films where shot over the course of a weekend.
Producer: Andy Torbet
Director: Daniel ‘Raz’ Rasmussen
Camera: Rich Stevenson and Dan Stevenson
Editor: Ruper Ward-Lewis
On behalf of Suunto Diving UK Andy produced an experimental film using green screen technology.
The film was directed and edited by award winning film-maker Matt Harris-Freeth and shot in 2 days.
On behalf of Suunto Diving UK Andy produced two films to encourage UK diver to take to their home sea and to encourage others into the sport.
Both films where shot over the course of a weekend.
Producer: Andy Torbet
Director: Daniel ‘Raz’ Rasmussen
Camera: Rich Stevenson and Dan Stevenson
Editor: Matt Harris-Freeth
Dive Odyssey is the brain-child of Finish film maker Janne Suhonen. This science-fiction film follows Cave Diver Gemma Smith as she explored the underworld. There she meets a strange alien, an aquanaut (played by Andy) and is transported into another dimension.
The film was self-funded and shot underwater in the freezing depths of Ojamo Mine in Finland and the Helsinki swimming pool. It involved some deep, technical cave diving in waters as cold as 0 degrees Celsius and air temperatures as low as minus 16. Even the pool shoots were hard requiring the team to work from 1900 at night to 0600 the next morning with Gemma and Andy only allowed to breath-hold during filming.
It is hoped that it will be released in Summer 2018. Watch this space.
Andy initially started working with Realm Pictures on The Underwater Realm project as the dive supervisor. However, when a chance came up to audition for a World War 2 spitfire pilot Andy jumped at it. The part was more stuntman than actor as it required him to hold his breath whilst trapped inside a replica spitfire at the bottom of a pool. He was set on fire, left underwater for hours, made to sit in cold water tanks and loved every minute of it.
The team put in a huge amount of work to make this project a reality and Andy was only a small part of it but was very proud of what was achieved.
