Into the Dark Battling subzero temperatures and forty-foot seas, a team of scientists embark on a perilous winter expedition into the darkest regions of the Arctic. Their mission: to understand how trace amounts of light may be radically altering the mysterious world of the polar night. What they discover has implications for the global climate and the future of the Arctic.

Into the Dark

Arctic Summer is a poetic meditation on Tuktoyaktuk, an Indigenous community in the Arctic. The film captures Tuk during one of the last summers before climate change forced Tuk’s coastal population to relocate to more habitable land. Training their cameras on the everyday lives, struggles, and dreams of the people of Tuktoyaktuk, the filmmakers create an abstract, impressionist portrait of the town. In Arctic Summer, the viewer experiences children playing in a northern wasteland that is both beautiful and decrepit, teenagers stuck in school while daydreaming of escaping to a big city, and elders witnessing their Indigenous culture disappear, all while their land sinks into the Arctic Ocean.

Arctic Summer

While working as a dishwasher at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, filmmaker&nbsp;Rachel Heckerman serendipitously befriended a team of scientists and scuba divers, who offered her the chance to experience life in Antarctica through their eyes. Not knowing you could scuba dive on this continent, nor knowing that sea spiders are a species that exist, she wanted to share their story with the world from the most unique and isolated continent on earth.

Under the Ice of Antarctica

This short follows Rebecca Thomassie, an Inuk woman, around Kangirsuk as she learns the 52 Inuktitut words for snow.

Names for Snow

A team of scientists travels to Elephant Island, a remote island off the Antarctic peninsula, to find out how its penguin population is faring.

Disappearing Penguins

The Two Poles Q&A

The Two Poles (plus Q&A)

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On Earth Day 2021 SF IndieFest kicks off an environmental film festival that keeps alive the independent spirit that launched the green movement. The festival will include award winning films about activism, wildlife and adventure. 

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