Science Film Fest at SM Lanang Premier Sheds Light on Climate Change and Renewable Energy
Science Film Fest at SM Lanang Premier Sheds Light on Climate Change and Renewable Energy
The German institution Goethe-Institut will be having the Science Film Festival 2013 from November 22 to 24 at SM Lanang Premier Cinema 5, from 9AM-10:30AM.
An annual event of the Goethe-Institut, the Science Film Festival is a celebration of science communication. It promotes science literacy and facilitates awareness of contemporary scientific, technological and environmental issues through the medium of film and television content. The Science Film Festival’s theme this year is renewable energy and the American award-winning film Chasing Ice will be shown.
Directed by Jeff Orlowski, Chasing Ice is a 2012 documentary film about the efforts of photographer James Balog and his Extreme Ice Survey to publicize the effects of climate change. It was released in the United States on November 16, 2012. The documentary includes scenes from a glacier calving event that took place at Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland, lasting 75 minutes, the longest that such an event was ever captured on film.
The public is invited to learn more about climate change through the Science Film Festival. For inquiries, contact 285-0943 or visit SM Lanang Premier on Facebook and Twitter for event updates. (AP/SMLA)
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Chasing Ice is a documentary based upon Balog’s ‘Extreme Ice Survey’, a comprehensive multi-year photographic study of the world’s glaciers. In the film, director Jeff Orlowski follows the team as they travel to Greenland, Iceland and Alaska to set up a series of cameras that will capture glacial retreat over the span of months and years. The resulting time-lapse photos produce shocking evidence that shows glaciers are melting at an alarming pace, especially when superimposed images, such as a 3D map of Manhattan, are placed over the images to provide a sense of scale and magnitude to the issue. -WWF.ca
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