Electric Water (In early development)

An animated series inspired by true events, unfolding across two worlds — above and below the surface — where human drama and deep-sea mystery collide.

LOGLINE - After the body of a rare whale washes ashore in her seaside hometown, a 19-year-old woman sets out to uncover what happened. As she searches above, another whale drifts alone through the deep — disoriented, searching for its kind. In a world where connection has broken down, their stories echo across the deep.

SYNOPSIS - When a rare whale washes up dead on the shores of her childhood village, THALA (19), a young woman estranged from both her past and the sea, becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind its death.

What begins as a personal reckoning becomes a high-stakes investigation — exposing a hidden war beneath the waves, where marine life collides with the unseen violence of human technology.

Electric Water doesn’t stay on the surface. The series moves fluidly between Thala’s journey above and the immersive, sensory world of a Cuvier’s beaked whale, underwater — an elusive creature adrift after losing its pod. Through the whale’s perspective, we enter a realm of pressure, bioluminescence, silence — and rising danger.

Beneath the surface, the Cuvier’s beaked whale moves through a soundscape fractured by human interference: sonar pulses, seismic blasts, the drone of ships. It does not think or feel like us — but it is affected by us. Its disorientation becomes a quiet echo of our own ecological detachment.

Volunteering aboard a marine expedition, Thala hopes to learn more about the whale’s death. But the crew is guarded, the lead biologist is withholding, and the clues point toward something far more sinister than natural causes — including the possibility that her own father is involved. As Thala pushes deeper, she uncovers not just a pattern of destruction in the ocean, but a legacy of silence and damage in her own life.

At its core, Electric Water is about what slips beneath notice — in the sea, and in ourselves. As Thala and the whale move through their separate but entangled worlds, the series traces the quiet damage caused by disconnection — and the fragile signals that can still pass between them. It’s a story carried by current, sound, and silence — where listening becomes survival, and even the deepest wounds leave behind a frequency that can be found again.

Electric Water is a powerful coming-of-age mystery about the connection between humans and nature. It’s a story of discovery and awakening — and a reminder that what happens beneath the surface shapes us all.

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Adventure

Target Audience: Teenagers & Adults

Techniques: 2D animation, stop motion

The Team:

Gali Blay - creator, director, scriptwriter

Anna Bielak - creator, scriptwriter

Carl Gerber - creator, scriptwriter

Alec Barth - producer (Counterintuitive film)

Sina Ataeian Dena - producer (Counterintuitive film)

Susanna Jerger - production designer and head of puppets

Sun Xin - production designer and 2D animation director

Alice Buechner - sculptor and model maker