Closing Night Gala: Chasing Ice

Closing Night Film&Gala: Chasing Ice at 13th Annual Environmental Film Festival
Directed by: Jeff Orlowski | 74 minutes | USA | G | Documentary | 2012

International Eco Hero James Balog in attendance.

James Balog, National Geographic photographer and founder of the Extreme Ice Survey—an innovative, long-term photography project that merges art and science—sets out with his posse of young explorers to the Arctic with the aim of giving a “visual voice” to the planet’s changing ecosystems. Setting up their high-tech time-lapse cameras in sub-zero temperatures, the adventurers come face to face with their own mortality and the all-too-real signs of climate change.

Balog and his team capture the magnificent glaciers in motion through film and photography in a way that has never been seen before and, with the alarming rate of glacial recession, is likely to never be seen again. With breathtaking images of a land that is rapidly shifting, Chasing Ice is a must-see film that takes us to the precipice of a disappearing world and proposes a challenge for change.

Audience Award, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
Excellence in Cinematography Award, Sundance Film Festival