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This trailer has been published in the 2025 Pathfinder Issue of Hidden Compass. Storyteller proceeds from patronage campaigns in this issue will go collectively to Team Rebel Reef.
“The Rebel Reef,” a Hidden Compass-backed Pathfinder documentary, follows our 2025 Pathfinder team on their award-winning underwater expedition to profile a reef off the coast of Tela, Honduras, where the corals defy the odds and give us reasons to believe. Tickets are now on sale for the film’s in-person world-wide premiere on December 6, 2025, at The New Parkway Theater in Oakland, CA.
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This trailer has been published in the 2025 Pathfinder Issue of Hidden Compass. Storyteller proceeds from patronage campaigns in this issue will go collectively to Team Rebel Reef.
“The Rebel Reef,” a Hidden Compass-backed Pathfinder documentary, follows our 2025 Pathfinder team on their award-winning underwater expedition to profile a reef off the coast of Tela, Honduras, where the corals defy the odds and give us reasons to believe. Tickets are now on sale for the film’s in-person world-wide premiere on December 6, 2025, at The New Parkway Theater in Oakland, CA.
Team Rebel Reef
Team Rebel Reef is the winner of the 2025 Hidden Compass Pathfinder Prize. A multi-national, multi-talented expedition team, their work focuses on a mysterious, rebellious reef off the coast of Honduras that invites us to ask: Do we dare to hope?