Chasing Ice–a must see!

I had the opportunity to attend a pre-release screening of a new documentary, Chasing Ice.  The title might sound like another travel/adventure film, and it is, but much more.  It may finally take us to the tipping point in convincing the general public that climate change is real and that we must not delay in addressing it.

Environmental photographer James Balog and his crew placed cameras at a couple of dozen places in the Arctic to take time-lapse photos of glaciers over a period of several years.  The results are startling and undeniable: glaciers are melting at an unprecedented and astonishing rate.  Such indisputable visual evidence, obtained at great expense and under difficult conditions, reaches viewers in a much more dramatic way than previous films like An Inconvenient Truth.  We follow the crew as they penetrate remote and highly inhospitable locations to place the cameras and later to retrieve the images.  We gain a sense of Balog’s determination to produce the evidence that will stimulate a mass movement to take action.  The livability of our planet is at stake, and time is critical.

Find out more, watch the trailer, and check showtimes here.  In the Denver area, see it at Chez Artiste Nov. 23 – 29.