The 2024 Kendal Mountain Festival awarded its Best Creative prize to Plunge, the animated journey of Katie Wotton (see here) (@ocean_calls_swimming) where she regained control of her life through reconnecting to nature and the sea.
Plunge tells the story of Wotton and her loneliness, but open water swimming connects her with a wider community, both in the water and online. She campaigns for better access to open water for people with disabilities and how she and others can kickstart with lives with joy.
Rebecca Mark-Lawson produced Plunge about Katie Wotton and founder Tyke Films (see here). She produces multiple award-winning documentary and fiction films for Film4, Channel 4, BFI and BBC Films and has released her film throughout Europe, USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and has won Best Documentary and Raindance Discovery Award at the BIFAs and Grand Prix at FAME Festival.
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I/ we (95 of us)are with you in your community from South Africa. Many of our swimmers , cold and warm have found a home in our dam fam. One day if you’re in South Africa, please connect with us.
Inner strength to outer strength we swim. ♡