Cynthia Abbot

Roles: Director

Cynthia is an independent producer/director of short form environmental films who believes in the power of storytelling that can change our collective vision of the ocean and create a new vision for the ocean’s future – protected and thriving. Abbott is an experienced cinematographer, editor, and producer and has worked in Burma and Thailand. She has spent her adult life living near the ocean and thus has been witness to its environmental demise. She is the founder of Every Second Breath Project, a short-film ​series that gives voice to (extra)ordinary people whose lives have been transformed by the ocean, who are doing something to heal the ocean and share this with their community – thus becoming agents of change.