"Ambassadors of the Arctic" is a promotional film for Polar Bears International’s Leadership Camp. The film will be sent to possible private donors and corporate sponsors to help fund the program. Leadership Camp takes students from around the world and exposes them to ten days of intense fieldwork dealing with the plight of polar bears as an indicator for global climate change. The students keep daily web journals so that anyone online can follow along on with the students’ journey. After the camp, each student returns to his/her community as an “Ambassador of the Arctic,” to help educate their peers to think globally and act locally. Comments (677)
This was my first professional commission (as well as the first video I ever made outside of a classroom setting). Polar Bears International found me through my masters of fine arts program at Montana State University.
This film was accepted into and shown at:
American Conservation Film Festival 2006
Wild and Scenic Film Festival 2007
I was a one woman crew on this shoot doing all pre-production, production, and post-production (shooting, lighting, directing, sound, interviewing, writing, editing). That is even my voice doing the voice-over for the video. Edward Watkins, the genius behind this website's design, did the graphics for the video.
FYI - I shot the video on the amazing high-definition Sony HDW-700 (despite my professor telling me that I could not physically handle the gear...yeah right!)
For further information on Polar Bears International, please visit their website at http://www.polarbearsinternational.org.