  A once-in-a-lifetime journey with Antarctica's 21st-century explorers |
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| updates The Jerusalem screenings were a big success!  Ice People showed to sold-out crowds at both screenings! Stay tuned for more screenings this fall. Reports from the festival "More than informing us about south pole science, [Ice People] tells us something important about the processes of artistic and scientific creation."—SouthJerusalem.com on the radio Jennifer Merin talks up Ice People on Around the World Travel Radio. |
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the filmUnique in the genre of exploration and adventure films, ICE PEOPLE takes you on one of the earth’s most seductive journeys—Antarctica. Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Anne Aghion spent four months “on the ice” with modern-day polar explorers, to find out what drives dedicated researchers to leave the world behind in pursuit of science, and to capture the true experience of living and working in this extreme environment. The public focus on climate change has turned the shores of Antarctica into a new tourist mecca, making the earth’s coldest continent the hot place to be. But, inland from the penguins and ice floes, is a magical Antarctica of volcanoes, boulder-strewn valleys and ominous glaciers. Only a small number of scientific research teams get there, braving severe conditions to learn about our planet’s history, and make predictions about our future. ICE PEOPLE heads out into the “deep field” with noted geologists Allan Ashworth and Adam Lewis, and two undergrad scientists-in-the-making, where they scour across hundreds of miles to find tiny, critical signs of life 20 million years old. The most authentic documentary film about life on the ice since the trailblazing expeditions to Antarctica chronicled nearly a century ago, ICE PEOPLE conveys the vast beauty, the claustrophobia, the excitement and the stillness of an experience set to nature’s rhythm.
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what people are saying"...The heartstopping landscapes, the gruelling commitment of a polar science camp, and, above all, the ineffable mystery of the beautiful south. I recommend this film to anyone who has ever wondered what it’s actually like in the Antarctic." media
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