about the film

ICE PEOPLE follows 21st-century explorers onto the Antarctic ice, for the true experience of living and working in the world’s most extreme environment. Read the film synopsis, and learn more about the filmmakers.

what people are saying

Ice People Discoveries Make Worldwide Headlines
About.com, August 7, 2008
"Ice People, not yet released in America, is an important addition to the list of documentaries--An Inconvenient Truth and The 11th Hour among them--that raise public awareness about the dangers of global warming... Highly recommended!"
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Sara Wheeler
Author of Terra Incognita, Travels in Antarctica
"...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."

Guy Guthridge
Former head of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program
"The movie is art.  Scenes are vividly in my memory.  The luxurious long and silent views of the dry valleys camp.  The zipping of the tent door.  The haunted watching by the geologists of the cooking dinner.  Your personal absence as filmmaker or reporter, letting the story and the characters explain themselves.  The banter at Black Island.  This movie takes me to Antarctica in as unfiltered a way as a mediated experience can do.  At the beginning I thought, 'This is slow,' in the middle I wanted it to stay slow, and at the end I resented the end, as if a boss suddenly sent me home though I needed to stay."

Marìa de Oca
Graduate student in Marine Science and Film Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara
"I wanted to congratulate you for your film Ice People. It has brought back to me all what it was to live in Svalbard. It has also reminded me of how much I look forward to get back there for my next thesis!
"I especially enjoyed the editing of the credits with the first night shots, the interviews with Adam Lewis and the McMurdo staff members, and those breathtaking aerial shots from the helicopter. Also, the pace of the film was just right, like it is when you are there, with the snow storms blowing and blowing... great!"