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Director Cody Sheehy’s documentary The Last Dive follows Terry Kennedy, a Vietnam veteran now in his 80s who has spent decades living on and in the water off Baja California, Mexico. For nearly twenty years, Terry shared an extraordinary friendship with Willy, a wild oceanic manta ray who would slap his wings against the hull of Terry’s sailboat to call him out to dive. Now, in what may be his final journey, Terry sets out to find Willy again. The film has won Best Cinematography at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival, Best Documentary at the Montreal International and Boise Film Festivals, and three audience awards across more than 50 sold-out festival screenings.<\/p>\n
Cody Sheehy, whose past work includes the Academy Award winning documentaries The Cove and Icarus, chose San Diego deliberately. The city over indexes on the four audiences the film speaks to most directly: active-duty service members and veterans, ocean lovers and environmentally minded viewers, retirees and those in their third act of life, and anyone on a healing journey of their own.<\/p>\n
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