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Chasing Ice

  • Director(s):
    Jeff Orlowski
    Producer(s):
    Paula DuPre' Pesmen, Jerry Aronson
    • United States
    • 2012
    • 74 min
    • HDCAM 1080/59.94i
    • English

American environmental photographer James Balog is on a mission. His frequent trips to the Antarctic presented him with dramatic evidence that glaciers were receding at an alarming rate. He embarked on an ambitious project: to demonstrate this visually by installing time-lapse cameras to capture the movement of some of the world’s greatest glaciers. He and his crew dramatically risk life and limb putting these delicate electronics in the harshest conditions on the planet. To Balog, the undertaking was an absolute necessity: “The public needs an understandable piece of visible evidence,” he says. “Something that grabs them in the gut.” You will not soon forget the mission’s breathtakingly stunning, and equally heartbreaking, findings – nor should you. A beautifully rendered portrait of an environmental visionary, Chasing Ice should be mandatory viewing for the leaders of the world who continue to bicker about the extent of our impact upon this fragile earth.

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Official Website:
www.chasingice.com
Festivals:
Sundance Film Festival 2012, South By Southwest 2012, Big Sky 2012, BIFF 2012
Awards:
Excellence in Cinematography, Sundance film Festival
Best Feature Film, Big Sky
Best Adventure Film, Boulder International Film Festival

Credits

Cinematographer:
Jeff Orlowski 
Editor:
Davis Coombe 
Producer:
Paula DuPre' Pesmen, Jerry Aronson 
Writer:
Mark Monroe 

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