Director: Mark Terry  Canada  2009  52 min.
“The documentary focuses on new discoveries made related to the ozone hole, the diminishing populations of penguins and other marine life, the greening of the world's largest desert, warming temperatures, glacial melting and increased world sea level” (United Nations Environment Programme).

Contact:
Mark Terry
Producer, Writer, Director
Polar Cap Productions
T: (416) 480-1996
E: info@polarcapproductions.com
W: http://www.theantarcticachallenge.com/  

Director: Wally Longul  Canada  2009  41 min.
Climate change is hitting the Arctic harder and faster than any other region on Earth. Although the North may seem remote from the population centres of the world, this is where the impact of human activity – sensitive ecosystems forever altered by climate change – is felt the most. In ON THIN ICE, we meet international teams of scientists who are chronicling the effects of climate change on the land and its animal inhabitants. We see huge ice shelves crumbling into the sea, polar bears struggling to survive and torrents of water flowing where there should be only ice. 

Contact:
Leslie Stafford
Marketing Manager – Prairie Centre
National Film Board of Canada
T: (204) 983-0140
E: l.stafford@nfb.ca
W: http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/salle-de-presse/galerie-photo/film.php?id=545805&gal=new  

Director: Wally Longul  Canada  2009  39 min.
Shot in HD in some of the world's most desolate and stunning locations, this documentary marries dramatic footage with hard science and striking computer graphics to tell the story of climate change. BATTLE FOR THE POLE introduces us to some of the people racing to pump oil and gas from beneath the Arctic seabed. For the engineers constructing ice-breaking tankers and the crew on the world's northernmost oil rig, this race is all about excitement, opportunity and new frontiers. 

Contact:
Leslie Stafford
Marketing Manager – Prairie Centre
National Film Board of Canada
T: (204) 983-0140
E: l.stafford@nfb.ca
W: http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=56545  

Director: Steve Smith & Julia Szucs  Canada  2009  52 min.
ARCTIC CLIFFHANGERS is a film that tells the story of how seabirds are unlocking the secrets of a changing Arctic marine ecosystem, and how they provide vital information to guide climate change research. The story follows biologist and filmmaker Steve Smith as he travels to the stunning colonies of cliff-dwelling seabirds of the eastern Canadian Arctic.
* Film supported by the Government of Canada Program for International Polar Year

Contact:
Steve Smith
Co-Producer, Co-Director, Cinematographer
Meltwater Media
T: (403) 678-8841 / 688-6688
E: action@meltwatermedia.ca / meltwater@shaw.ca
W: http://www.meltwatermedia.ca/site/Arctic-Cliffhangers-movie.html  

Director: Randy Kelly  Canada  2007  43 min.
100 Inuit teens, 10 Hip Hop dancers and 5 days in the remote Hamlet of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. Capitalizing on the popularity of hip hop, social worker and longtime b-boy Stephen Leafloor has brought positive hip hop workshops to the North. While dancing to the beat, kids are encouraged to blend their rich, ancient culture with a modern one.

Contact:
Jacques Ménard
Producer, Les Productions des Collines Inc.
T: (819) 827-3256
E: pcollines@magma.ca
W: http://www.pcollines.com/arctichiphop.html  

Director:  David R. Gray  Canada  2009  52 min.
ARCTIC SHADOWS is an exceptionally well-researched documentary film on the Arctic career of Dr. R.M. Anderson, former Chief Biologist of the National Museum of Canada and a world-renowned mammalogist. Woven together by Anderson’s own words taken from his extensive diaries and letters and read by a narrator, the film centres on Anderson’s three Arctic expeditions: the Stefanson-Anderson Expedition of 1908-1912, the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-1918, and the Eastern Arctic Patrol of 1928.
* Film supported by the Government of Canada Program for International Polar Year

Contact:
David R. Gray, PhD
Director, Researcher
Grayhound Information Services
T: (613) 821-2640
E: grayhound@xplornet.com

Director:  Michel de Wouters  Belgium  2008  34 min.
In this adventure documentary, two Belgian explorers, Alain Hubert and Dixie Dansercoer, journey from Siberia to Greenland over the immense distance of the North Pole. On foot and skis, in a 106 day expedition, the two men endure the incredible, mysterious power and hardship of the polar region. Co-produced by MDW Productions and the International Polar Foundation.
* French with English subtitles

Contact:
Lise Johnson
Communications and PR Specialist
International Polar Foundation, Brussels (Belgium)
T: +32 2 543 06 98
E: lise.johnson@polarfoundation.org

Director: David Lickley  Canada  2009  5 min.
Three oceans, two ships, one goal: to produce a comprehensive view of the physical and biological structure of the oceans surrounding Canada. This short film introduces “Canada’s Three Oceans”, an IPY project led by world renowned oceanographer Dr. Eddy Carmack of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. The film gives an overview of the project which traced Canada’s coasts from the sub-arctic Pacific to the sub-arctic Atlantic measuring ocean temperature, salinity, oxygen, nutrients, tracers, sediments, virus, bacteria, plankton, and recorded bird and whale sightings in order to evaluate the health of these ecosystems.

Contact:
David Lickley
Director
Science North
T: (705) 522-3701 ext. 254
E: lickley@sciencenorth.ca

Director: Susan Kutz  Canada  2009 
This training video was produced as part of the “CircumArctic Rangifer Monitoring and Assessment Network”. The Network is a group of scientists, managers and community members who have a common interest in the future survival of the northern Rangifer herds. This training video is designed to instruct caribou hunters on how to monitor the caribou around their communities in order to learn more about the current and changing state of the caribou. There are four components to the video;  basic monitoring (14 min.), advanced monitoring (46 min.), common diseases (63 min.) and an “ask the kids!” section (6 min.).
* Film supported by the Government of Canada Program for International Polar Year

Contact:
Susan Kutz
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
University of Calgary
T: (403) 210-3824
E: skutz@ucalgary.ca

Director: Marten Berkman  Canada  2009  24 min.
CASCADE OF LIGHT is a moving documentary that follows a group of friends from an urban culture as they journey along the Firth River to the Arctic Ocean. Cinematography of the northern landscape is accompanied by meditative voiceover, evoking a spiritual relationship with the natural environment.

Contact:
Marten Berkman
Filmmaker
T: (867) 393-3233
E: marten@northwestel.net
W: http://www.martenberkman.com/col/col.html  

Director: Maya Salganek  USA  2009  15 min.
An insider’s look at Arctic research, FIELD TECHNIQUES is the audio-visual component of a multi-media textbook for students studying the Arctic. This video is an excellent introduction to Arctic research and conservation, as well as the passion of scientists from the around the world who study this amazing polar region.

Contact:
Maya Salganek
Assistant Professor, Film/Theatre
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
T: (907) 474-5950
E: maya@alaska.edu

Director:  Dan Sokolowski  Canada 2009  4 min.
A film about the rejuvenation of life from the ashes following the devastation of forest fires. Photographed along the Klondike Highway, Yukon, Canada. Live action and animation.

Contact:
Dan Sokolowski
Filmmaker
T: (867) 993-2333
E: dan@sokcinema.ca

Director:  Daniel Janke  Canada  2009  16 min.
HOW PEOPLE GOT FIRE is Whitehorse-based filmmaker Daniel Janke’s animated rendition of a traditional oral story, “How Indians Got Fire,” by Aboriginal author/orator Kitty Smith. A National Film Board of Canada production.

Contact:
Daniel Janke
Filmmaker
T: (867) 633-4806
E: danieljanke@northwestel.net
W: http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=53743  

Director:  Geoff Green  Canada  2009  60 min. 
A one-hour documentary about an awe-inspiring journey from one end of the Earth to the other, tracing the journey of two Inuit teens (Terry Noah and Jason Pijamini) from Grise Fiord, Canada’s northernmost Arctic community, to the bottom of the world, Antarctica.
* Film supported by the Government of Canada Program for International Polar Year

Contact:
Geoff Green
Filmmaker, Executive Director
Students on Ice Expeditions
T: (819) 827-3300 (ext. 27)
E: geoff@studentsonice.com
W: http://www.geoffgreen.ca/documentary.html  

Director: Greg Hemmings  Canada  2008  53 min.
MELTING LANDS is a documentary that explores the effects of climate change by focusing on how a small Inuit community of Kangiqsujuaq in the Canadian North struggles to adapt and maintain its traditions. MELTING LANDS follows hunters and fishermen undertaking their traditional activities, including under ice mussel picking.

Contact:
Greg Hemmings
Filmmaker, Producer
Hemmings House Pictures (Saint John, New Brunswick)
T: (506) 642-0872 / (902) 425-3705
E: greg@hemmingshousepictures.com

Director:  Paul W. Davis  Canada 2009  14 min.
Paul W. Davis’ film is a sly, diaristic entry about a substitute teacher being called in for duty in the Canadian North. Getting to work is not easy, however, when it’s 40° below, pitch black, and all you own is a bicycle.

Contact:
Paul W. Davis
Filmmaker
T: (867) 333-1633
E: paulsurvelo@yahoo.ca

Director:  Max Fraser  Canada  2009  5 min. 
PAINTING RED SQUARE is an amusing documentary portrait of the creation and loving maintenance of the “Red Square,” a small painted square on the floor of a bar in Whitehorse, Yukon. In a gesture of solidarity with working people across the world, especially circumpolar inhabitants, this film gives viewers a humorous glimpse into part of Yukon culture.

Contact:
Max Fraser
Filmmaker
T: (867) 335-1959
E: maxfraser@northwestel.ca

Director: Joel Heath Canada  2010  7 min.
A documentary about the Inuit community of Sanikiluaq in the Belcher Islands and their lifestyle based on the warmest feather in the world, eider down, which allows them to survive the harsh Arctic winters of their native land. The film is a hybrid of natural history and community portrait.
* Film supported by the Government of Canada Program for International Polar Year

Contact:
Joel Heath
Director, Producer
Sanikiluaq Running Pictures
T: (604) 813-5635
E: info@peopleofafeather.com
W: http://www.peopleofafeather.com/  

Director: David Lickley  Canada  2010  5 min.
Focusing on the Arctic region, POLAR QUEST will address the effects of climate change with the stunning visuals afforded by IMAX cinematography.
* Film supported by the Government of Canada Program for International Polar Year

Contact:
David Lickley
Director
Science North
T: (705) 522-3701 ext. 254
E: lickley@sciencenorth.ca

National Aboriginal Health Organization Canada 2009   3 - 2 hour programs
An innovative TV series on health issues of importance to Inuit today. This project was designed to stimulate discussion on a variety of themes from Inuit men’s wellness, maternal care and Inuit youth, coping and endurance. Each broadcast includes live expert panel discussions, vignettes on programs and activities going on across the North, as well as a lively call-in segment. A thirty-minute highlight version is also available.
* Film supported by the Government of Canada Program for International Polar Year

Contact:
Catherine Carry
Ajunnginiq Centre
Aboriginal Health Organization
T: (613) 760-3515 / (613) 355-7007
E: ccarry@naho.ca
W: http://www.naho.ca/inuit/wellnessTV/index.php  

Director:  Diane Whelan  Canada  2008  34 min.
The first film from award-winning Canadian photographer and journalist Diane Whelan, THIS LAND is a first person documentary study of the most extensive sovereignty patrol of the Canadian polar region undertaken since 1947. In March 2007, an expedition set out to cover more than 2,000 km of the harshest terrain on the planet to raise a flag on the northernmost tip of Canadian soil (a mere 412 km from the North Pole).

Contact:
Kay Leung
Marketing Manager (Pacific)
National Film Board of Canada
T: (604) 666-5554
E: k.leung@nfb.ca
W: http://www.nfb.ca/film/this_land_trailer/  

Producer: Alexandre Carrière Environment Canada 2009 11 min.
During the Cold War, North America relied on the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line's radar networks to provide early warning of airborne attack. Hazardous materials that were later found at some of the radar sites include hydrocarbons, radioluminescent dials and switches, batteries, antifreeze agents, solvents, paint thinners and soil containing PCBs and lead. With this unprecedented $580 million clean-up effort, the Government of Canada has managed to successfully keep chemical contamination from the DEW Line sites out of the Arctic food chain by disposing of all hazardous and non-hazardous materials, including soil, in an environmentally safe manner.

Contact:
Alexandre Carrière
Environment Canada
T: (819) 953-9450
E: alexandre.carriere@ec.gc.ca

Producer: CARMA IPY  US/Canada  2009 10 min.
Voices of the Caribou People is an attempt to bring indigenous perspectives about human-caribou relations to complement the on-going ecological and biological research on caribou during the International Polar Year period (2007-2009). Voices is a North-America wide film project to document the local and traditional knowledge of Indigenous People who have a close relationship with caribou (called wild reindeer in Russia). The filming was carried out in partnership with six Indigenous communities who subsist on caribou and identify themselves as "caribou people". The main purpose of this documentary project is to capture community members' perspectives on global changes; document community strategies for coping with the changes; and share this knowledge & information with other northern communities and greater public and inform researchers about the needs of local communities from science. This also provides a snapshot of conditions during the IPY as a legacy for future researchers. This 10-min film is a snapshot of testimonies of changes being observed on their homelands and life style, and how these changes are affecting their traditional culture.

Contact:
Archana Bali or Gary Kofinas
University of Alaska
T: (907) 474-6777 or (907) 474-7078
E: gpkofinas@alaska.edu
W: www.carmanetwork.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1114238