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  • Polar Sea: A Filmmaker’s Journey

    Polar Sea: A Filmmaker’s Journey

    North West Passage documentary team

    We are happy to announce that permafrost drilling team from Herschel Island got a deserved recognition and was accompanied by the Doc Studio – an online community for documentary filmmakers.

    Arctic Portal, together with PAGE21 and Herschel Island permafrost team is happy to introduce its readers to the blog from the shoot for “The Polar Sea”.

    Documentary film will be launched later this year and it will consist of 10 episodes of multi – media expedition through the Northwest Passage.

    The blog is being written by, Dylan Reibling -Director of the Herschel Island shoot for “The Polar Sea.” He’s also an award-winning filmmaker and interactive artist.

    His work ranges from documentary, stop-motion animation and narrative films to interactive prototypes. His films have travelled to 50 international film festivals. His most recent short film “Record” has been featured at 20 film festivals around the world – including screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, and the British Film Institute. Dylan won Best Director (fiction) at the 2009 Yorkton Film Festival.

  • The Story of Stuff

    The Story of Stuff

    The Story of Stuff

    The documentary “The Story of Stuff” is short documentary video which is a description of modern day consumption, with a special emphasis on the US. The video is 20 minutes long and goes over the Story of Stuff, from resource extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal. Consumption and waste is a major topic in the video, which raises concern about our consumption driven economy.

    The video has been a big hit in and about 6 million peoples have watched the documentary on it´s webpage and about a million more on YouTube. In the US around 7000 schools and congregations have ordered the video on DVD and hundreds of teachers have contacted the author, Annie Leonard. Since The Story of Stuff was launched online on December 4, 2007, the site has been visited by people in over 224 countries and territories around the world, and the website has received thousands of requests for the film to be translated. An international site has been launched been, which includes translated versions of the films with subtitles, as well as the contact information for the organizations around the world that did the translations.

    Annie Leonard is a former Greenpeace worker and criticisms have been made about the video, claiming it to be one-sided feature and anti-capitalistic. On the whole, the video has started some debates about environmental issues of all sorts of nature. Open Discussions about environmental issues from both sides always promotes healty dialouge, which should be welcomed by everyone.

    To view the webpage go to The Story of Stuff