Chasing Ice is an award winning 2012 documentary following National Geographic photographer James Balog and his Extreme Ice Survey as they capture a multi year record of glaciers and the effects of climate change.
The planet is changing… right before our eyes..
Follow National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers. As frightening and fascinating as it is breathtakingly beautiful, CHASING ICE is a hymn to our changing planet, and a plea for its salvation.
Special Features
- Audio Commentary with director Jeff Orlowski and Extreme Ice Survey director James Balog and coordinators Adam LeWinter & Svavar Jonatansson
- “Before My Time”,,Academy the Award nominated song performed by Scarlett Johansson & Joshua Bell
- Making of CHASING ICE
- Making the Time-Lapses
- Glacier Watching
- Updated Science, Dr Tad Pfeffer from the University of Colorado on the latest in glaciology
- Film Festival Q&As
- Sundance Experience
- Testimonials
- Time Now
Awards
- Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2012 – Won Best Feature Documentary
- Boulder International Film Festival 2012 – Won Best Adventure Film
- Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2012 – Won Nicholas School Environmental Award for Best Documentary
- RiverRun International Film Festival 2012 – Won Audience Choice Award Best Documentary Feature
- SXSW Film Festival 2012 – Won Audience Award Documentary Feature
- Satellite Awards 2012 – Won Satellite Award Best Motion Picture, Documentary
- Sundance Film Festival 2012 – Won Cinematography Award Documentary, Nominated for Grand Jury Prize Documentary
Chasing Ice Reviews
“Still an eco-sceptic? Clap your eyes on this lot. Awe-inspiring, terrifying, transcendently beautiful, and absolutely weighted with significance for the future of the planet.” Time Out
“The most important documentary of the year.” Detroit News
“If any film can convert the climate-change sceptics, Chasing Ice would be it: here, seeing really is believing.” Guardian UK
“If you're looking for eye-popping evidence that the world's glaciers are melting, don't miss the small-scale but spectacular documentary, Chasing Ice.” Entertainment Weekly
“The rapid disappearance of ice mountains, filmed over a period of years, is compressed through time-lapse technology into minutes and seconds. The speeded-up effect is harrowing and also, disturbingly, eerily beautiful.” Christian Science Monitor