About the film

In the spring of 2005, acclaimed “National Geographic” photographer James Balog was dispatched to the Arctic on a tricky assignment: to capture images that tell the story of the Earth’s changing climate. At the time, Balog was skeptical. Even if human-caused climate change is real, can we correct it? But what he saw on that first trip was too compelling to dispute. Balog had to act and so created the Extreme Ice Survey, a multi-year project that would, through time-lapse photography, document dramatic changes to numerous glaciers around the world. With stunning cinematography and access to never before seen areas of the Arctic, Chasing Ice documents Balog’s incredible journey to provide incontrovertible proof – at great risk to his own health – that our planet is in crisis and what we do to it matters.

Wybrane nagrody i festiwale / Selected festivals and awards: 2012 – FF Sundance / Sundance FF, 2012 – FF Hot Docs / Hot Docs FF, 2012 – FF River Run / River Run FF, 2012 – FF Seattle: Nagroda Publiczności / Seattle FF: Audience Award

Attend the debate ”Will Humans Survive without Glaciers?” following the screening of the film ”Chasing Ice”. Warsaw, Friday, May 17, Kinoteka. Wroclaw, Saturday, May 18, Dolnoślaskie Centrum Filmowe.