Diving down into the vast beauty of the ocean, young Freediver, Olivia Rose reveals the magic and tranquility of the underwater world, and her amazing capacity to reach seemingly unreachable depths - an ability that lies within all of us.

Director Statement

All my life, I have been in constant awe of our ocean. Growing up by it’s shores, it never ceases to amaze me how a trip down to the beach can instantly make you feel cleansed, even if it is just for a moment. The idea of Free-diving has always captivated me and the more I researched, the more I have come to terms with why people push their bodies to reach such depths. In creating The Flow Effect, I want the audience to feel a sense on connection and enlightenment. The ocean is just as much mine as it is yours… so go out and explore it! It is a beautiful part of our world and Flow shows the magical connection a human can have with the sea.

Conveying this vision through the eyes of our main girl - young Freediver and Marine Biologist seems fitting. Liv has a wonderful story and outlook on the world, so I really felt the need to make that echo throughout the documentary. 

Liv’s dives and the other underwater sequences should leave the audiences feeling captivated and maybe even wanting to go diving themselves! After all that is the aim of this documentary… Whilst it seems obvious to most that the ocean is under threat, which is a huge worry. I wanted to make the environmental message within this documentary be more underlying and less in-your-face. It makes you focus on the beauty of it and employ people to have more of a connection with the sea (and their mammalian dive reflex) that would maybe make us all have more respect for it and become more environmentally aware. The Flow Effect is a simple yet powerful story. It leaves the audience submerged underwater and taken to a new world for a new possibility for the future.