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My Haggan Dream (2016)

★★★ — My Haggan Dream (2016)

My Haggan Dream is a short documentary film, running just eight minutes, produced under the Open Boat Film and Sisbro Studio banners and shot on location in the Northern Mariana Islands, a United States Commonwealth territory in the western Pacific. The husband-and-wife team of Robert and Laura Sams made the film as part of their broader work in conservation filmmaking, a niche but genuinely dedicated corner of the documentary world that produces short-form content for educational and environmental awareness purposes. The haggan of the title is the Chamorro word for sea turtle, an animal of particular cultural significance across the Pacific Islands. The film sits squarely in a tradition of community-centred conservation shorts, modest in scale but carefully crafted for younger audiences.

A-Z World Movie Tour Northern Mariana Islands https://youtu.be/hShBGqDpciQ?si=-0Izxe6y02laCcBq Well shot, well produced conservation educational video about sea turtles. It's narrated by a young girl and features some pretty decent video editing and some informative genuinely interesting information without feeling preachy. Soundtrack that accompanies it too is really good. Highly recommended if you've got kids to show it to

Rating: ★★★ | Year: 2016 | Watched: 2025-08-02

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