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: In an overheated Greek village, a young woman returns home only to find a stranded whale on the beach. She joins a team of scientists to find out what’s really going on underwater, eventually coming face-to-face with the forces that are destroying the sea.

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Adventure

Target Audience: Teenagers & Adults

Techniques: 2D animation, stop motion

Synopsis: Electric Water is set in a present-day Greek coastal village and the surrounding waters. On land, THALA (18) returns from Berlin to the village where she was born, hoping to reconnect with her estranged father NICOLAOS (60), Once an independent fisherman, he is now trapped in the industrial machine that destroyed his heritage. The place Thala remembers as idyllic is now run-down: friends have left, work has vanished, the heat is unbearable, and the sea feels distant and hostile. She feels adrift between cultures, secretly yearning for a sense of belonging.

Underwater, two Cuvier’s beaked whales navigate by sound until a deafening blast tears their world apart, leaving one whale alone in a hostile ocean. These worlds collide when Thala finds the other whale stranded on the beach. While locals accept the event as inevitable – another loss among many, Thala is unable to let it go. Her search for answers leads her aboard a research boat studying the impact of noise pollution on marine life, headed by CHRISTINA (50).

Conflicting forces shape the life on the boat and below the surface, marine organizations, illegal tuna fishing, offshore oil exploration, cruise ships, and military sonar exercises. Parallel to this, Thala’s journey gradually brings the two realities closer together through new friendships, teenage romance, and intimate, almost magical encounters with non-human species.

While the surviving whale is out there trying to find its own kind in all that noise, Thala has to find her voice and speak up about what’s happening at sea. But in the middle of this fight, will she finally find where she belongs – or will she lose herself along the way?

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