For Lazuri Film founder Cumali Varer, everything flows back to the sea. “I’ve spent my life on the sea, sailing and learning its rhythms,” Varer says. He honed his craft producing French-language documentaries for Turkish television, capturing Mediterranean life and sport along the way. After Carrière’s passing in 2021, and navigating the shifting post-pandemic landscape, Varer reimagined the project as a series, enlisting “Barbarians” creator Andreas Heckmann. Further on the horizon, Lazuri Film is developing “Groundtruth,” a high-stakes thriller exploring espionage, AI ethics, and global power struggles.