Beneath the Polar Sun: Free Film Night
The Green Team invites you to view the film "Beneath the Polar Sun" that documents a scientific expedition where a team of explorers is beset by a jumble of sea ice – offering audiences unique exposure to hands-on field science and extreme wilderness travel. Watch and discuss the film with the producers Diane Kushner and Stephen Smith.
Friday, January 6, 2023 @ 7 pm
Peace Dale Congregational Church
261 Columbia Street, Wakefield, RI 02879
The Story: Beneath the Polar Sun
In the Arctic’s Last Ice Area, 500 nautical miles from the North Pole, a scientific team is on a rare mission to measure the world’s oldest ice floes. Tiny specks in a vast ocean wilderness, they are alone. And they’re in trouble. Jumbled slabs of sea ice are closing in from every corner. Hauling loaded kayaks, the team struggles to follow a route that had been navigable only years earlier. Trapped in a frozen maelstrom – caught in the grip of the floes they came to study – something has to give. The science is scuttled: bearing witness to Earth’s most pressing existential threat, what matters now is survival. They must escape the chaos by traversing a narrow channel between Canada and Greenland – the most formidable passage of the polar North.
