Id like to announce the educational DVD release of my film Glacial Balance, which is currently available to the educational market on a sliding fee scale at glacialbalance.com, and will be available for individual retail purchase at the end of the month.
The film is a country-by-country journey along the spine of the Andes, providing a narrative of climate change impacts on communities. At the same time we visit with an international array of scientists studying these glaciers while they still exist. Being a filmmaker, and not a scientist, my goal when approaching the subject was to communicate difficult scientific concepts in understandable language. However, I wanted to do this without relying on a narrator, but allow the locals and the scientists to narrate the story through edits of long-form interviews. The asking price of 2-DVD sets for educational institution use is $300, but we are working on a sliding scale. Understandably, this is more feasible for universities than K-12 schools. If there is interest from a school, but budgetary limitations, we will work with any budget - yes, any budget. The film is also available to license for non-profit & for-profit screenings, and I am traveling with the film to colleges to present it and talk with students. Please feel free to share the films info with anyone who would be interested. Ethan Steinman o) 425-285-9750 c) 206-445-9392 et...@glacialbalance.com www.glacialbalance.com Few things are changing as fast on our home planet as the cryospherethe frozen portion of the earths surface, which is melting quickly. And nowhere faster or with more grievous effect than along the Andes, as this piercing film makes clear! Bill McKibben - Author, Educator, Environmentalist Mountain glacier demise preludes the fate of the great ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica, if humanity does not come to its senses soon. Steinmans film wakes us up to the danger by hearing directly from the ones suffering the consequences of societys inaction. James Hansen - Fmr. Head, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Adjunct Professor, Columbia University Earth Institute [...] see firsthand how changes in the annual patterns of glacier melt forces people to alter what they plant and the consequent diet they eat[...] as well as how these changes impact basic energy consumption in societies David Brock - National Science Teachers Association Climate change is happening. Glacial Balance challenges us to think ahead and start a dialogue as to what our communities worldwide need to do to adapt to it. Laura Ballou - DC New Movies Examiner
