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We join Greenpeace on their Antarctica expedition as they fight for the creation of the world's largest protected area. For centuries, mankind has been hooked on the concept of a mysterious continent at the end of the world. Ancient Greeks and Romans called it "the unknown southern land" and a century ago, Captain Robert Falcon Scott paid the ultimate price on his famous South Pole expedition. Antarctica, the planet's southernmost continent, is home to spectacular biodiversity - from emperor penguins and blue whales to krill. But climate change, oil drilling and an ever-expanding commercial fishing industry are threatening this undisturbed land and its iconic creatures. For the last year Greenpeace has been campaigning for the creation of a massive ocean sanctuary in the remote Weddell Sea. The marine reserve would cover 1.8 million square kilometers and would be protected from direct human impacts like fishing and deep-sea mining. "Scientists are saying we need to protect a third of the world's oceans, at least. If we want to let fish stocks recover, if we want to mitigate against the worst impacts of climate change, then Antarctica is a great place to start," says Will McCallum, head of oceans at Greenpeace UK, who leads the Weddell Sea petition - one of the most significant campaigns in the environmental organization's history. In October 2018 the 36 governments responsible for the conservation of Antarctic waters met in Australia to make a final decision on the protected area. earthrise joins Greenpeace's expedition to the Weddell Sea, as a team of scientists, ocean photographers and ocean experts set out to gather sufficient evidence to ensure that the proposal is carried through and that international support is garnered. Later, we meet up with them again in Australia to see whether the bid to create one of the largest ocean sanctuaries in the world has been successful.

In 2016, Brazilian scientists traveled to the frozen continent of Antarctica in search of our ancestors.

Antarctica - Journey into the White Desert A vast white wilderness that stretches across the south of our planet; a giant natural laboratory that has long occupied the human psyche. Antarctica is a continent of remote natural wonder. For brief moments each year this hauntingly beautiful landscape opens up, beckoning scientists and explorers from around the world to investigate its frozen secrets. 'Journey into the White Desert' takes us on a mesmerizing visual adventure into this mysterious continent, introducing us to a team of South African scientists, researchers and explorers who have braved the inhospitable continent in the quest to learn its secrets. The film explores South Africa's role in the greatest wilderness on earth and showcases some of the groundbreaking research that could make the difference to our survival on this planet. Millions of years ago Africa was connected to the Antarctica in a land mass known as Gondwanaland. Once again, through the power of film, the vast freezing land of Antarctic will be connected to the mother continent. HONORABLE MENTION: For Creative Approach - IWFF 2010 HONORABLE MENTION: For Storytelling - IWFF 2010

Flapjack Animations is an American web series that follows the adventures of Flapjack in his day to day life.

VestAndPage's first film trilogy, "sin fin", presents three medium-length art films of collaborative performances co-created with epic environments worldwide. Teetering between the real and the visionary, these films feature the artists undertaking surreal and ephemeral acts. Amplified by the unfamiliar environments, the performances reflect on universal human experiences such as altruism, partnership and the transient nature of existence. The concluding episode, filmed in Antarctica, engages with narratives on nature and the universe. Here, the two characters move through the deserted, icy vastness of a oneiric land. They find themselves creatures being torn between life and death, absence and misleading mirages, fortune and emptiness. The flux of nature is mercilessly immense, where the wind sings its laments and silence its lullaby. All paradises are merciless in a search for Beauty where anything is a Mirror. Is there any game left to be played? Is there someone left to call for when clocks don't display time anymore, and no compass is guiding one's way? Who's the player and who's the pawn, and whose turn is it when civilisation has lost its quotidian schemes, and just basic rules count? In the backdrop of Antarctica, a place where humans have neither roots nor a future but only a frail and temporary presence always at risk, all questions inevitably lead to humbleness.

Inhabitants of arctic and antarctic regions wander through landscapes of dwindling ice.