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FROZEN EMPIRE
What is the film about?
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This film tells the story of the anthropologist and explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson whose travels in the Arctic marked a new way of exploring and a new approach to anthropological research. The story is mostly told in Stefansson's own words, using his journals, notebooks and personal letters.
In 1906 the twenty-six year old anthropologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson set out alone to conquer the Canadian Arctic when hundreds of explorers had lost their life without revealing its secrets. They had gone in large ships with men, provisions and heavy weapons, but Stefansson had a different plan.
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Settling with the Inuits he became the first anthropologist to "go native". He learned their ways and their language, hunted and travelled with them, shared their lifestyle and their food. Armed with this knowledge he went on to travel in the Arctic for twelve years, living off the land and making his own clothes from furs.
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Vilhjalmur Stefansson predicted what now is being
exposed in The Arctic due to Global warming.
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THE MISSION
Stefánssons' care for the Arctic
Vilhjálmur Stfánsson came to the artic premises with an open mind, not pre-disposed by arrogance but with an open mind and a firm intention of learning. These are his own words. The knowledge acquired in this fashion he then transmitted to the western societies, all while suggesting that a seafaring canal be opened up via the Artic Ocean, something which is only now to become a reality, The Mediteranian of the North as Stefánsson said. He also emphasized the necessity to respect and conserve the cultures and the lands of the Artic continent. In our times, Vilhjálmur would have been a forceful advocate of fighting the global warming and preserving the high north. But even if Stefánsson was exceedingly foresighted as regards many topics a hundred years ago, he had no inkling of the looming catastrophes which our and future generations are faced with.
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WHITE MOUNTAIN
AN ICELANDIC FILM COMPANY MAINLY PRODUCING DOCUMENTARIES
White Mountain is a film company that focuses on producing documentaries. Thor Elís Pálsson is the company's owner, he has a long career in film and television production. The company has also been in the process of producing television programs and advertisements, but at the moment the main focus is on documentaries. Among films that produced by the company are, Silent Explosion documentary about Magnús Pálsson a leading contemporary visual artist in Iceland, Only A
a Birth documentary about Johann Eyfell's visual artist and thinker worked his later years in USA, Texas. Eyfell’s was most likely the oldest working artist in the world until he past away last December in his 96th year. Good Silver Better then Gold a documentary of the Icelandic silver champions in handball at the Beijing Olympic Games 2008.
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Frozen Empire
Is the documentary that this page is introducing. At the moment the final financing is being executed. The film is almost fully edited and the final post-production needs financing such as Online editing, payment for Archive material and music and sound editing. With your help and others the film will be premiered late 2020.
La Baiser de la Fée
A documentary about the world famous ballet dancer and now Artistic Director & Principal Choreographer of San Francisco Ballet, Helgi Tómasson. Research and scriptwriting is now in process as well as the financing of the whole project.
WORK IN PROGRESS ARE TWO DOCUMENTARIES
FROZEN EMPIRE AND
LA BAISER DE LA FÉE
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