CHASING ICE opens 11/23 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema with special appearances November 23, 2012

In President Obama’s victory speech, his emotional statement that “we want our children to live in an America that…isn’t threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet” directly addresses climate change. The film CHASING ICE shows breathtaking and alarming evidence of our warming planet, an urgent issue that President Obama and other world leaders face.

In the spring of 2005, acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment for National Geographic: to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth’s changing climate. Even with a scientific upbringing, Balog had been a skeptic about climate change. But that first trip north opened his eyes to the biggest story in human history and sparked a challenge within him that would put his career and his very well-being at risk.

CHASING ICE is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet. Within months of that first trip to Iceland, the photographer conceived the boldest expedition of his life: The Extreme Ice Survey. With a band of young adventurers in tow, Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers. As the debate polarizes America and the intensity of natural disasters ramps up globally, Balog finds himself at the end of his tether. Battling untested technology in subzero conditions, he comes face to face with his own mortality. It takes years for Balog to see the fruits of his labor. His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate. Chasing Ice depicts a photographer trying to deliver evidence and hope to our carbon-powered planet.

PHOTOGRAPHER AND SUBJECT OF FILM IN PERSON: Photographer, director of the Extreme Ice Survey, and main subject of the film, James Balog will appear in person on November 23 at the Embarcadero Center Cinema. Showtimes/details tbd. Co-presented by Climate One (http://www.climate-one.org/).

Showtimes and tickets will be available by November 20, 2012 at: http://www.landmarktheatres.com/tickets and at theatre box office.

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