CLIMATE ON THE EDGE | directed by Alain Belhumeur
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Alain
Belhumeur is responsible for presenting the climate machine in a global and
historical context and for showing that the planet has experienced climate
variations throughout its history. Since the publication of the much-vaunted
IPCC reports and the establishment of a scientific consensus on global warming,
the media has tended to present the issue as one disaster after another, failing
to provide the explanations needed for the public to properly understand it.
The scientific community is also divided on the question. Debate is heating
up and the various perspectives must be placed in context.
The film promises to be a work of popularization on a complex, constantly evolving subject. Using interviews with climatologists, glaciologists, astrophysicists and oceanographers, as well as dynamic animation sequences to illustrate certain points, the film will show viewers how climate functions in a global, integrated perspective. An essential document for understanding all the complexity of climate change and its impact on our culture and society.
Alain
Belhumeur
Alain Belhumeur is a director, editor and cinematographer who has worked in audiovisual production since 1982. His films have been awarded prestigious prizes and screened in numerous international festivals.
In 1989, he directed The Cry of the Beluga, which won Best Educational Film at the Parcomondo 2000 Festival in Italy; Special Jury Prize at the ECOFILM '90 Festival in Czechoslovakia and a Gémeaux Award for Best Sound. In 1995, he directed The Empty Net, a 50-minute documentary about the crisis of the Atlantic fisheries.
In 1998, he was cinematographer and co-director (with Jean Lemire) of the documentary Encounters with Whales of the St. Lawrence, which received Gémeaux Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Sound; the Prix international de l'Institut français de la mer (Toulon, France); and the Grand Prize at the International Television Festival (New Jersey, USA), Nature/Wildlife Category.
He also directed The Mystery of the Blue Whale in 1998 and Seal on the Rock in 2000. The latter is a documentary about the hunters and ecologists who face off every year on the ice floes over the killing of harp seals. His latest film, completed in 2001, is J'ai pour toi un lac, a documentary on the future of lakes inhabited by humans.