By Addie Morfoot
In The Last Dive, director Cody Sheehy follows Terry Kennedy, an ex-Hell’s Angel-turned manta ray conservationist, on a personal journey to Mexico’s Sea of Cortez.
Happenings
The Boston Film Festival (BFF) will celebrate its 41st season September 18 – 22. Featuring four world premieres and the international premiere of opening night feature “The Fallow Few” from Massachusetts native JR Rappaport.
Find The Last Dive on the Boston Schedule
Once again this year, the festival includes a special presentation from Warner Bros. Television for Boston area college students.
In addition to the opening night feature film, “The Fallow Few,” the slate includes the closing night screening of “Ambleside,” making its world premiere. Documentaries making their world premiere include “Hidden: The Kati Preston Story,” “Remembering Big: Juan ‘Chi Chi’ Rodriguez Story,’ and “Heart of a Lion.”
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Read Steve Kopian's full reivew http://www.unseenfilms.net/2025/06/last-dive-2025-tribeca-2025.html
This is the portrait of Terry Kennedy, a legendary diver who decades earlier had made friends with a 22 foot manta ray he called Willie. As Kennedy is getting close to the end of his life he decides to make one final trip to Baja in Mexico in an effort to try and reconnect with his old friend.
This is one of the very best films playing Tribeca and one of my favorite films of the year. This is a glorious look at life, at friendship and the lives we have lived. By the end of the film I was so moved that I was wiping away tears.
‘The Last Dive’ Follows a Diver’s 20-Year-Long Friendship with a Giant Manta Ray
A diving legend talks to us about his last chance to see his long-lost friend— a 22-foot giant manta ray—who swam with him for years off Mexico’s Revillagigedo Islands.
Manta man: film profiles unlikely bond between diver and giant sea creature
The Last Dive tells how a relationship with a giant Pacific manta ray turned a big game fish hunter into a conservationist
VARIETY
June 4, 2025
“Tribeca Festival: Miley Cyrus’ ‘Something Beautiful,’ Barbara Walters Doc and 11 Other Films We’re Excited to See,” includes THE LAST DIVE, by Brent Lang and Rebecca Rubin.
Amoung other titles, The Last Dive, (United States) World Premiere was announced. "Terry Kennedy has lived several lifetimes- as a Navy Seal, a Hell’s Angel, and, most memorably, as the unlikely friend to a giant manta ray named Willy. Now in his 80s, Terry mounts one last diving expedition to a remote island in search of his long-lost friend. Directed by Cody Sheehy. Produced by Mark Monroe, Randy Gebhardt, Christopher Gebhardt."
Every year, Tribeca awards two documentary category films official Audience Awards laurels. These films are selected purely by the audience of Tribeca Festival attendees.
If you have a ticket to The Last Dive, we would be honored to have your vote.