Sure, on the beaches of LA, there are lifeguards aplenty. In some of the poorer countries in the world, there is No Lifeguard.
July 25 is World Drowning Prevention Day, and they are releasing No Lifeguards two days ahead. The rest of the details are from the press release.
Producer Ed Accura (Blacks Can’t Swim, Blacks Can’t Swim: The Sequel, Blacks Can’t Swim: REWIND, Changing The Narrative) didn’t learn to swim until adulthood. That single fact, and the unease it left behind, is the spark for No Lifeguard. This new feature documentary that turns one man’s late, hard-won relationship with water into a wider story about who actually keeps us safe when we get in. Mysterex directs the film, and it was filmed across Ghana, Sri Lanka and London.
Drowning remains one of the most under-discussed causes of preventable death worldwide, and disproportionately affects children, low-income communities and those with limited access to swimming lessons.
He delivers a deceptively simple thought with real warmth. A lifeguard, the film argues, shouldn’t be one person in red and yellow watching from a chair. It should be all of us, starting with ourselves. No Lifeguard builds that argument through testimony rather than statistics, travelling to two of the regions hit hardest by drowning anywhere in the world.
No Lifeguard is released for free on YouTube on the 23rd July.
