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Chasing ice is honored to have received the 2014 news and documentary emmy award for outstanding nature programming the film made its tv debut on the national geographic channel on april 19, 20. Balog collected an award for excellence in cinematography at the 2012 sundance film festival, and veteran chicago suntumes film critic roger. In this film, james balog tries to find what he could photograph about climate change. In chasing ice, balog deploys revolutionary timelapse cameras to capture a multiyear record of. Since that day, chasing ice has screened in more than 172 countries and on all. But whether any of us can change anything is a different matter altogether. An extreme ice survey team member checks out a glacier in chasing ice. The film made its tv debut on the national geographic channel on april 19, 20.
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