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Chris Kentis. Chris Kentis is an American film director, screenwriter, and editor best known for the critically acclaimed feature film Open Water (2003), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Made without a crew for a budget of $120,000, the film went on to become one of the 20 most profitable low-budget movies of all time.
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Chris Kentis is an American film director and screenwriter. Career. Kentis is known for directing such films as Grind, Open Water, and Silent House. References ...
Chris Kentis. Director: Open Water. Chris Kentis is an American film director, screenwriter, and editor best known for the critically acclaimed feature film Open Water (2003), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Made without a crew for a budget of $120,000, the film went on to become one of the 20 most profitable low-budget movies of all time. Kentis also directed and edited the ...
- Open Water Is Based on Tom & Eileen Lonergan Scuba Diving Mishap
- Open Water Is Also Based on A Novel
- Why It Took The Boat Crew So Long to Discover Tom & Eileen Lonergan Were Missing
- How Tom & Eileen Lonergan's Disappearance & Deaths Changed Diving in Australia
Tom & Eileen were accidentally left behind while scuba diving on vacation
Open Water focuses on fictional holidaymakers Daniel and Susan, but their story is based on a real-life tragedy that befell Tom and Eileen Lonergan. During a vacation at an undisclosed location in the Open Water shark movie,Susan and Daniel embark on a scuba diving trip and stray from the group. They resurface to discover the tour boat has left them behind after a member of the crew performs an inaccurate headcount. At first, the couple believes their absence will be noticed, but as the hours...
The sequel was a short story adaptation
Unlike the Open Water shark movie that was inspired by real events, the 2006 sequel Open Water 2: Adrift is an adaptation of a short story— a story that isn't at all connected to the disappearance of Tom and Eileen Lonergan. Since the second Open Water movie was marketed with the tagline "BASED ON TRUE EVENTS", many viewers believed it was also derived from a real-life case of a shark attack like the first Open Water. The short story that inspired Open Water 2: Adrift is entirely fictional th...
The diving crew's negligence led to the Lonergan's deaths
Remarkably, nobody on the boat, including the passengers or the crew, pointed out that Tom and Eileen were missing when the boat departed and essentially left them for dead. It took two days for the incident to be reported to authorities, which was another glaring misstep and act of negligence on the part of the diving staff. Those two days could have been the difference between life and death for Tom and Eileen. There was no clear explanation ever given by the diving crew about how they coul...
New safety protocols were immediately enforced
As a result of the tragedy of Tom and Eileen's disappearance and presumed deaths, stricter regulations were put in place for the diving industry of Queensland. Of course, the biggest result of their tragedy was the 2003 movie Open Water, which has become an iconic staple of the killer shark genre ever since it was released in theaters. The film received a Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes with a score of 71% and at the very least gave Tom and Eileen's story a platform even if its prim...
- Tom Russell
CHRIS KENTIS A graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts film program, Chris Kentis is an award-winning film editor. He and his wife, Laura Lau, co-wrote his feature film ...
Mar 6, 2012 · Husband and wife directing team Laura Lau and Chris Kentis are behind the successful and terrifying indie film "Open Water." It's been seven years since its ...
Aug 6, 2004 · Open Water finally breaks this mediocre, post-“Jaws” mold. Kentis, alongside wife and producer Laura Lau, has stripped down the man versus shark premise to the bone. Keeping his production afloat with a modest budget of $300,000 and shooting in digital video, there’s no high-tech bullshit to distract us from the couple’s isolated plight.
