BRATTLEBORO — In-Sight Photography Project has selected Chasing Ice as the first 2017 feature in its “Great Pictures” film series.
The highly acclaimed film tells of a team of photographers that captured the first visual evidence of climate change through time-lapse photography of disappearing glaciers.
The film screens at the Latchis Theatre on Sunday, Sept. 24, at 4 p.m. as a benefit for In-Sight. All proceeds support scholarships for participants in the nonprofit photography organization's programs, which for 25 years have been offered without regard for ability to pay.
Chasing Ice was filmed in Alaska, Bolivia, Canada, Denmark, Greenland, and Iceland and has won many awards, including “Excellence in Cinematography” at the Sundance Film Festival and “Best Adventure Film” at the Boulder International Film Festival.
The film, which showcases the ingenious time-lapse photography of award-winning natural environment photographer and author of ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers, James Balog, was produced and directed by cinematographer Jeff Orlowski, whose work has been shown on the National Geographic Channel, CNN, NBC, and has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Popular Mechanics, and on NPR.
Chasing Ice is the third in In-Sight's “Great Pictures” film series. The first two, Frame By Frame and Neither Wolf nor Dog, were shown last year.
One of Balog's signature photographs, “Ilulissat Isfjord, Greenland,” will be raffled to benefit the In-Sight Scholarship Fund. The museum-quality, 24 in. x 16 in. chromogenic print, matted and framed, has been signed by the artist and is valued at $3,000.
The print will be displayed at the Latchis on Sunday, Sept. 24, the day of the Chasing Ice screening.
Raffle tickets are $25 each, or five for $100, and may be purchased at the screening, at In-Sight, 45 Flat St., Suite 1, or at www.insight-photography.org
The winner will be announced at the closing of the In-Sight Annual Photography Exhibition and Benefit Auction on Sunday, Nov. 26, at 6 p.m. Ticket holders don't have to be present to win.