Mia, a half Asian teenager, arrives in Alaska to work on her cousin’s salmon fishing boat for the summer to make money for college. Faced with a hostile crew, grueling work, seasickness, and her role in the death of the fish they catch, she is forced to navigate her impending womanhood, her place within the world, and the all powerful sea.
What We Find in the Sea was filmed on board an active purse seiner in the waters of South East Alaska during the 2019 commercial salmon fishing season. Our film team worked closely with the crew of the Haida Warrior to ensure we could capture what we needed without disrupting any normal fishing operations.
Anika Kan Grevstad is an Asian American director from Seattle who is now based in Los Angeles. Her short film, No One Ever Really Dies, premiered at the 2019 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Award for New Voices. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Colorado College with a B.A. in Asian Studies and Film Studies.
Sasha Faust is a writer, director, and avid journal keeper. She is a founding member of Broken Slate Productions and has written and produced multiple short films including Uprooted (2018) and Half (2019). Raised by the mountains of Santa Fe, New Mexico, she graduated Summa Cum Laude from Trinity University, where she was the recipient of the Baker Duncan Theater Scholarship.
Mia
ANIKA KAN GREVSTAD
Charlie
TYLER LATTA
Drew
JOSHUA DITLEVSON
Mia Stunt Double
SARA DOVE OROZCO
Captain Bill
NATE SOLNIT
Jessie
ISRIEL DAVIS
Mama Liu Haines
CHRISTINE LIAO
Additional Voices & ADR
JAMES MCGRATH
produced by
SKYE MAHAFFIE
CORRINA LEATHERWOOD
LUCY HOULIHAN
EMMA FRANKLIN
SASHA FAUST
ANIKA KAN GREVSTAD
executive producers
STEFFEN DZICZEK
EDWIN P. STEVENS
JONNY SWEIGERT
associate producers
ALISON & KURT GREVSTAD
BEN & MARILYN GREVSTAD
J. KAN
MARK KAN
LEE NGO
director of photography
SASHA FAUST
editor
ANIKA KAN GREVSTAD
production designer
SKYE MAHAFFIE
costume designer
LUCY HOULIHAN
assistant editor
FENGYI XU
assistant director
EMMA FRANKLIN
casting director
LUCY HOULIHAN
marketing & distribution
CORRINA LEATHERWOOD
vfx & colorist
SKYE MAHAFFIE
sound editor/re-recording mixer
MATTHEW LARSON
composer
PIETRO MILANESI
sound recordist
SKYE MAHAFFIE
foley
ALVARO APARICIO
music supervisor
KENDALL ROCK
Deal with the Wind
written & performed by Sophia Capp
Little While
written & performed by Natalie Tate
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