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(Red Line - Medical Center)
Bethesda, MD 20892
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National Institutes of Health Earth Day Screening
Please join us for a special Earth Day screening of PROJECT: ICE at the National Institutes of Health presented by NIH and the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital!
ABOUT THE FILM
PROJECT: ICE reveals the story of the Great Lakes through the prism of ice, from the crossroads of history, science and climate change. (Synopsis below)
PROJECT: ICE is an "Official Selection" of eighteen festivals from DC to LA, from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Bangalore, India, including opening the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital. The film won the "Award for Excellence in Filmmaking" from the Canada International Film Festival in Vancouver, British Columbia, "Best Documentary" at the East Lansing Film Festival in Michigan, Awards Finalist honors at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival in Vermont and Audience Choice Award for "Best Documentary Feature" at the Soo Film Festival in Michigan.
FILM TRAILER & WEBSITE
Click here: ProjectIceMovie.com
For optimal trailer viewing, make the image full screen and turn up the volume.
SCREENING INFORMATION
9:30 AM Showing
- William Kleinert, Director & Executive Producer
- Dr. John Balbus, Senior Advisor for Public Health (NIH/NIEHS)
- Dr. Henry Pollack, Geophysicist and Climatologist
Admission is free but registration is required. (see below)
FILM SYNOPSIS
North America's fresh water inland ocean contains a staggering twenty percent of all the fresh surface water on the planet. Consider that encompasses every river, stream and lake on Earth, and you quickly grasp the scale, volume and significance. Lake Superior by itself holds ten percent of Earth's fresh water at the surface.
4K resolution digital cinema cameras visit this shared Canadian and American resource that holds a timely and telling story of geology, human movement, population growth, shipping, navigation, industrialization, cultural development, recreation and the profound impact people have had on the very environment they cherish and depend upon.
Ice sits at the heart of it all.
PROJECT: ICE science advisor, renowned climatologist and geophysicist, Henry Pollack, who shares in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore for his work as a Contributing Author to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), chronicles the story of Great Lakes formation, later exploring in detail this salient climate bellwether.
Ultimately, PROJECT: ICE reveals the "canary in a coal mine" role played out by Great Lakes ice over the past 40 years - an indisputable record of increasing water temperatures and strikingly diminished ice cover. 40 million Americans and Canadians live within the Great Lakes Basin. Communities, industries and visitors who vacation and recreate will all feel profound effects of this change. It's an environmental and economic wake-up call from the heartland of the United States and Canada.