Second Project from Dark Corner Films to get National Audience

 

A second project created by South Carolina-based Dark Corner Films will gain a national audience of more than 27 million subscribers next month.

Landlocked tells the incredible story of how freshwater striped bass were spawned due to the formation of South Carolina lakes. It will air July 22 on the Documentary Channel, which is channel 197 on Dish Network and channel 267 on Direct TV.

This is the second time a Dark Corner Films project has aired on The Documentary Channel. The Dark Corner aired last June.

“While we are very humbled to again garner national exposure for our work, we also believe this shows the quality storytelling that Dark Corner Films can create,” said Dark Corner’s Bryan Tankersley.

Landlocked’s executive producer was Rich King, who employed Dark Corner Films to create the project that premiered at February’s Southeastern Wildlife Exposition in Charleston.

The film chronicles the story of how the State of South Carolina changed fishing history forever with a controversial project that began during the Great Depression.

Through the use of federal funds, 40 miles of dams and dikes were constructed to flood 160,000 acres from the moss-hung Lowcountry all the way inland to Columbia to create Santee Cooper. This was done to create hydroelectric power for the surrounding rural areas, but when the locks were closed, the originally ocean dwelling fish striped bass became landlocked and unable to get back to saltwater. After several years, fishermen and biologists realized the fish were thriving and reproducing, incredibly for the first time ever in freshwater. Now, the striped bass is stocked in nearly 40 states’ lakes and is one of America’s greatest game fish.

• Learn more at www.landlockedfilm.com.