Editor’s Note: Starting today, October 28, "Fishing Without Nets" is now available to download on iTunes. Here’s our review from the LFF.
When Cutter Hodierne’s short film, "Fishing Without Nets," won the Grand Jury Prize for Short at Sundance in 2012, his treatment of the theme of piracy in Somalian waters ran somewhat contrary to the news stories and big budget films being touted by Western media at the time (and, predominantly, since) and instead told a story from an alternative perspective.
Like the short, the feature length version of "Fishing Without Nets" is set in Somalia and tells the story of a humble fisherman, Abdi (played by Abdikani Muktar…
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