Exuma’s Swimming Pigs to oink L.A.
The internationally acclaimed film ‘When Pigs Swim™’ has taken home top honors back where it all started, winning the “Haven” Oscar for best short documentary at the Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF). The 15-minute short, exploring the history behind Exuma’s famous swimming pigs, took home the hardware due to its originality and the explosive popularity of…
As with most people, I heard about the pigs before I saw them. And by pigs, I mean THE swimming pigs of Exuma. Stepping onto the catamaran, I knew what I would see that day: beautiful water, hundreds of islands, iguanas, tropical fish, maybe a dolphin or two. However, the attraction I just couldn’t get…
That’s right … it happened! Charlie Smith, the director of “When Pigs Swim™“, flew to LA this month to meet with the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism and introduce Exuma’s swimming pigs to the world. Of course, the pigs are already well known to millions of tourists, not to mention the millions more that watch the…
In the middle of paradise, with billionaires and celebrities for neighbors, there is an island populated only by Swimming Pigs. There was a time when these animals were largely unknown to the world. And suddenly, they went viral. Appearing in magazines, videos, newspapers, commercials, TV shows and countless selfies, the Swimming Pigs of Exuma became…
Like there was any doubt … who can resist the swimming pigs? In recent years, after the Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) wraps up on Paradise Island in Nassau, the event shifts to Harbour Island in Eleuthera. It’s no Exuma, but hey, what can you do? After the buzz the swimming pigs of Exuma generated…
When you love and follow the swimming pigs as much as we do, not too many things surprise. Until we saw a recent story on the website Global Animal called “Beach Babes: Sun, Sand and Swimming Swine”. http://www.globalanimal.org/2014/11/20/beach-babes-sun-sand-and-swimming-swine-gallery/ The whole article seemed standard enough. After all, thousands of articles have been written about the swimming…