Waimea Ocean Film Festival 2012

Waimea, Hawaii

January 5, 2:15 pm

January 6, 9:30 am

San Francisco Ocean Film Festival

PIER 39, San Francisco, California

February 6, 2010

Lakehead University Outdoor Film Festival

Thunder Bay, Ontario

March 19, 2010

The Banff Centre Speakers’ Series

Max Bell Auditorium

April 13, 2010

University of Alberta

Circumpolar Student’s Association

April 19, 2010

PolarCINEMA

Oslo, Norway

June 8 & June 12, 2010: Oslo CINEMATEKET

June 8-12, 2010: Lillestrøm, IPY Science Conference

Ocean of Wings Film Festival

World Seabird Conference

Victoria, British Columbia

September 9, 2010

Gray’s Reef Ocean Film Festival

Savannah, Georgia

September 19, 2010

Blue Planet Film Festival

Santa Barbara, California

October 7-10, 2010

Oceans Week 2010

INCO Innovation Centre

St. John’s, Newfoundland

October 19, 2010

Speakers’ Series

Canmore Public Library

Canmore, Alberta

January 10, 2011

Wild & Scenic Film Festival

Nevada City, California/

January 14-16, 2011

Blue Planet Film Festival

Tempe, Arizona

February 17-21, 2011

Haida Gwaii Seabird Festival

Queen Charlotte City, BC

February 22, 2010

IPY Film Festival

National Archives, Ottawa

Arctic Cliffhangers is the story of the cliff-dwelling inhabitants of the North, the prolific seabirds that represent some of Canada’s most spectacular wildlife. Clambering over rugged coastal headlands and dangling into their precipitous and little-known world, an inquisitive biologist encounters an Arctic that is surprisingly colourful and teeming with life. He lives on the land with scientists and Inuit hunters, learning much about the dramatic complexity of the polar marine ecosystem. Through his adventures he discovers how today’s vanishing sea ice is influencing marine life in Arctic waters, altering the way of life of Northern peoples.

Canada’s Arctic seabirds are revealing much about the Earth’s changing oceans and climate. The film spotlights and interprets aspects of the biology and life history of seabirds, providing insights into the impacts of industrial pollution and the role that climate change plays in the transformation of marine ecosystems. In addition to communicating some of the latest scientific findings on polar marine research, Arctic Cliffhangers also documents the age-old hunting traditions carried on by Canada’s aboriginal subsistence hunters.

versioned in English, French & Inuktitut

runtimes: 60 and 52 minutes

shot and mastered in HD

Distributed outside of Canada by Filmoption International