Look Again. Jan 19 – 29, 2012 Park City, Utah

When National Geographic photographer James Balog asked, “How can one take a picture of climate change?” his attention was immediately drawn to ice. Soon he was asked to do a cover story on glaciers that became the most popular and well-read piece in the magazine during the last five years. But for Balog, that story marked the beginning of a much larger and longer-term project that would reach epic proportions.

In this breathtakingly beautiful documentary, filmmaker Jeff Orlowski follows the indomitable photographer as he brings to life the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS)—a massive photography project that placed 30 cameras across three continents to gather visual evidence of the Earth’s melting ice. Chasing Ice tells the story of a visionary artist who, in facing his own mortality, bequeaths the magic of photography and the adventure of the expedition to a new generation and captures the most visible sign of climate change on the planet today.

Award Winner
Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Documentary - S.F.

Paula DuPré Pesmen
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303-415-0188
Jerry Aronson
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Chasing Ice
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In 2007 Stanford student and New York native Jeff Orlowski got his first taste of the Arctic when he worked as a videographer with National Geographic photographer James Balog on the initial expedition of the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS). Orlowski’s Geocaching: From the Web to the Woods won the award for the best documentary short at Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival in 2006. He has exhibited his photographs at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, and before the U.S Congress on Capitol Hill.

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