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Rupert
Murray

Rupert Murray is an acclaimed Film Director; with recent work including the campaigning documentary The End of The Line about the devastating global effect of over-fishing.

"When you've got once-in-a lifetime material, you treat it like the Crown Jewels. You do whatever it takes to keep your film safe."

Fishing for the truth

Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, The End of The Line is a wake-up call for the world. It took two years to film this powerful documentary that sets out to reveal the shocking truth about the fishing industry, with global over-fishing set to see the end of seafood by 2048.

The End of The Line took Rupert and his team across the world – from the Straits of Gibraltar to the coasts of Senegal and Alaska and to the famous Tokyo fish market. The film follows them confronting politicians and celebrity restaurateurs, along with interviewing top scientists and fishermen to tell the real story of what is really happening to our oceans.

Robust technology

It isn't just the expense of traveling across the globe and filming in many diverse environments that restricted a re-shoot should the rushes become corrupted or lost. The journalistic nature of the film meant that the action would have been hard or impossible to shoot again. The project called for data storage that could be relied upon 100 per cent.

Therefore, Rupert used his G-DRIVE mini on location to save his unique footage. He also used his G-RAIDS in the studio as further back-up.

"The drives haven't skipped a beat, I wouldn't use anything else to store my work. You have so much to focus on when you're putting together a documentary that you cannot afford to worry about losing your footage, and the G-Techs have been flawless," Rupert said.

Animal artistry

Rupert also used G-Tech when filming another of his documentaries about two dare devil artists - Olly & Suzi - artists who paint dangerous predators on site in the wild.

Rupert said: "The footage we shot and used was once in a lifetime material, a face-to-face encounter with a 13 foot leopard seal in Antarctica and then inches from a pack of African wild dogs in Tanzania. You're often going to great lengths to get the coverage so it's reassuring to know that it can always be stored safely on G-Techs."