BOAT International · Yachting · Documentary · 2025
Terence Disdale
A 25-minute portrait of Terence Disdale, one of the most influential yacht designers of the last fifty years, made for BOAT International alongside his book My Art of Yacht Design.
- Client
- Conte House
- Director · Editor
- Director
- Alex Conte
- DOP
- Elliot Foreman
- Format
- Documentary · 25 min
- Year
- 2025
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Credits
- Director · Editor
- Alex Conte
- Creative director
- Christopher Whale
- Producer
- Haydn Robinson
- DOP
- Elliot Foreman
- Camera operator
- Theocharis Vangelaras
- Assistant camera
- Joe Sassoon, Harry Perkins
- Motion graphics
- Harry Perkins
- Sound
- Nikos Nikolalaios
- Production assistance
- Mia Dixon, Christina Alexandrou
- Host
- Stewart Campbell
- Commissioned by
- BOAT International (B.creative Studio)
- Featuring
- Terence Disdale — Terence Disdale Design
- Featuring
- Peter Lürssen — Lürssen
- Featuring
- Tim Heywood — Tim Heywood Designs
- Featuring
- Dickie Bannenberg — Bannenberg & Rowell
- Featuring
- Stewart Campbell — BOAT International
- Featuring
- Daniela Zulli, Mark Hopper — Terence Disdale Design
- Featuring
- Till von Krause, Andre Jonker — Abeking & Rasmussen
- Featuring
- Juliet Page — Page Lacquer Company
- Featuring
- Dale Rogers — Dale Rogers Ammonite
The brief
Disdale’s book marked more than five decades in superyacht design. BOAT International wanted a film to sit beside it: a portrait of the designer and his way of working, made with his studio.
The idea
Build the film around his ten rules of yacht design, restraint and simplicity above all, and let his home, his studio and the yachts themselves carry them. Nature, calm and a little rock and roll, the way he works.
The result
A documentary that follows his life, his home and his idea of luxury at sea, told by the people closest to the work: Peter Lürssen, Till von Krause, Tim Heywood, Dickie Bannenberg, his own team and the craftspeople behind his interiors.
