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Borealis

2020 1 h 33 min
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Avec Borealis, son nouveau long métrage documentaire, le célèbre réalisateur Kevin McMahon (L’eau, c’est la vie) pénètre dans les profondeurs de la forêt boréale pour y découvrir l’expression chorale de la vie dans les légendaires étendues sauvages du Canada. Comment les arbres arrivent-ils à évoluer, à communiquer, à survivre malgré les forces destructrices du feu, des insectes et de l’intrusion humaine? Borealis offre un portrait immersif des cycles de vie de la forêt, présenté selon la perspective des plantes et des animaux qui y vivent.

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Avec Borealis, son nouveau long métrage documentaire, le célèbre réalisateur Kevin McMahon (L’eau, c’est la vie) pénètre dans les profondeurs de la forêt boréale pour y découvrir l’expression chorale de la vie dans les légendaires étendues sauvages du Canada. Comment les arbres arrivent-ils à évoluer, à communiquer, à survivre malgré les forces destructrices du feu, des insectes et de l’intrusion humaine? Borealis offre un portrait immersif des cycles de vie de la forêt, présenté selon la perspective des plantes et des animaux qui y vivent.

Forestry
Environment and Conservation
Plants
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  • featuring
    Diana Beresford-Kroeger
    Stan Boutin
    Roger Brett
    Isabelle Desrochers-Stein
    Nadir Erbilgin
    Mike Flannigan
    Erin Fleming
    Christine Godwin
    Ted Hogg
    Sam Hunter
    Kajar Köster
    Edmund Metatawabin
    Ben Miron
    Robert Partridge
    Tuukka Petäjä
    Jessica Piercey
    David Price
    Gerry Racey
    David Schindler
    Thomas Scott
    Sandy Smith
    Christian Wirth
  • boreal ecology guide
    Gerry Racey
  • delegate producer
    Felicity Justrabo
  • original music
    Justin Small
    Ohad Benchetrit
  • sound design
    Grant Edmonds
  • editing
    Nathan Shields
  • visual effects
    Mark Alberts
  • director of photography
    John Minh Tran
  • wildlife photography
    Joshua See
    Hugo Kitching
  • executive producer
    Michael McMahon
    Anita Lee
    Jane Jankovic
  • producer
    Kristina McLaughlin
    Kevin McMahon
    Michael McMahon
    Justine Pimlott
  • direction
    Kevin McMahon
  • story editor
    James Broadley
  • research
    Nikita Takkar
  • visual researcher
    Anita Turcotte
  • None
    Maeve Kern
    Carolin Neubauer
    Chris Goll
    Alex MacPhail
    Jorn Meyer
    Marc Chiasson
    Jeremy Kessler
    Andy Frech
    JAXX
    David St. Louis
    Kevin McMahon
    Linda Fong
    John Ferri
    Marita Hübinger
  • aerial photography
    Chris Goll
    Joshua See
  • supplementary footage
    Christian Schidlowski
  • helicopter pilot
    RJ Price
  • Firebox footage
    Dan Jiminez
  • Parks Canada Fire management supervisor
    Stephanie Koroscil
    Beau Michaud
  • location sound
    Mike Filippov
    Sanjay Mehta
    Chris Goll
  • translation
    Stefan Randstrom
    Stephanie Weimar
  • transcripts
    Ava Harness
    Ginger Howard
    Camryn Kern
    Rosana Khabbaz Diaz
    Gabriela Salon
  • post-production coordination
    Jordan Schinkel
  • dialog editing
    Mimi Scowen
    Patience Bradford
  • sound mixer
    Grant Edmonds
  • colorist
    David St. Louis
  • data
    The Matrix
  • arrangements
    Daveed Goldman
  • musical composition performer
    Choir! Choir! Choir!
  • choir co-director
    Nobu Adilman
    Daveed Goldman
  • singer
    Stephanie Braithwaite
    Renée Gomes
    Laura Hayward
    Shama Joshi
    Piper MacFadyen
    Lynne Provencher
    Susan K. Robertson
    Mira Shenker
    Shoshana Waser
    Mason Wright
  • boreal songbird field recordings
    Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
  • ABDI coordinator
    Alex McPhail
  • legal counsel
    Duncan Morin
  • insurance
    Front Row Insurance Brokers Inc.
  • manager, studio operations
    Mark Wilson
  • administration
    Patricia Bourgeois
    Stefanie Brantner
  • production supervisor
    Marcus Matyas
  • production coordinator
    Andrew Martin-Smith
  • technical coordinator
    Kevin Riley
  • subtitling
    Zoé Major
  • marketing
    Kelly Fox
  • media relation
    Jennifer Mair
  • senior producer
    Takahiro Hamano

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Education

Ages 15 to 18

Mini-Lesson - Borealis

Geography - Environmental Issues
Science - Environmental Science
Science - Life Systems/Ecology
Social Studies - Environmental Challenges

A beautifully shot documentary on the importance of the boreal forest. Excellent for understanding the interactions within the ecosystem as well as the impact of humans and climate change on the forest. Create a web showing the interactions within the boreal forest ecosystem. What are the important roles of the boreal forest? What is the impact of human activity on the boreal forest? What is changing the boreal forest? What is being done to preserve the boreal forest? Research where the boreal forest is, what species are endangered in the forest, and what is being done to preserve them. 

Borealis
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