'It's usually in the last 10 metres of a dive that your body starts to realise, as your lungs inflate again, that you haven't got as much oxygen as it thought.'
When Irish director Laura McGann first got the call to say her documentary, The Deepest Breath, was to premiere at Sundance Film Festival, she thought she was being rejected.
This, as it turns out, was not the case – Ms McGann was to have her international premiere in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the largest independent film festival in the United States.The film – which was written and directed by Ms McGann – profiles Italian freediver Alessia Zecchini on her quest to break a world record with the help of Irish safety diver Stephan Keenan."This is a story of two people who just seemed destined to come together and do incredible things.
"You would think that being down at 100 metres, you'd be in more danger but it's usually in the last 10 metres of a dive that your body starts to realise, as your lungs inflate again, that you haven't got as much oxygen as it thought."
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