The Great Northern

Saturday, January 25 at 7:00 PM

Filmmaker Sarah Keo Attending.

ABOUT THE FILM

If a single photo can inspire change, how influential are a million images? Over the course of the 15-year Extreme Ice Survey project, photographer James Balog and his team brought some of the world’s first and most compelling visual evidence of climate change to the global stage as he depicted the rapid melting of glaciers around the world. Thoughtfully helmed by acclaimed director Jeff Orlowski-Yang (Chasing Ice, Chasing Coral, The Social Dilemma) and first-time filmmaker Sarah Keo, Chasing Time is a meditative exploration of time and mortality, following James and his crew as they bring the decades-long project to a close, cataloging more than one million images in the process.

The short documentary reunites James and the Emmy-award-winning team behind Chasing Ice to capture the end of the epic undertaking and spotlight the power of an intergenerational effort to seed hope and inspire action toward a sustainable future. A beautiful tribute to the power of images and the importance of mentorship, the team examines the legacy their efforts have made on the world.

FILMMAKER BIOS

Jeff Orlowski-Yang (Director) is the Founder and Creative Director of Exposure Labs, a film and impact production studio that uses stories to change the world. Orlowski-Yang directed the Sundance-premiering, Emmy-winning documentaries THE SOCIAL DILEMMA (2020), CHASING CORAL (2017) and CHASING ICE (2012), which were seen by hundreds of millions worldwide and screened everywhere from classrooms and local communities to Capitol Hill and the United Nations. Orlowski-Yang has traveled on tour representing the Sundance Institute, President Obama's Committee for the Arts and Humanities, and the National Endowment of the Arts, among many other speaking and press engagements. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Sarah Keo (Director) is a Cambodian-American filmmaker from Seattle, Washington. After receiving a Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of Washington, Sarah pursued her childhood dream of telling stories and changing the world, believing that film was the perfect medium to do both. Her first venture into filmmaking was as the Production Coordinator on Jeff Orlowski-Yang's Emmy-winning documentary, THE SOCIAL DILEMMA (2020). Since then, Jeff and Sarah have co-directed a short documentary film together called CHASING TIME, in what will be Sarah's directorial debut. Sarah currently resides in Denver, Colorado and is a 2024 Cine Fe Fellow.

ABOUT THE GREAT NORTHERN | JAN 23–Feb 2, 2025

The Great Northern celebrates our cold, creative winters through programming that invigorates mind and body. In an era of changing climate that threatens our signature season, we seek to create community, inspire action, and share the resilient spirit of the North with the world.

ABOUT MSP FILM

The films are curated by the MSP Film, whose mission is to inform and transform individuals and communities through the power of great cinema. MSP Film has spent the last six decades celebrating a myriad of cultures, countries and issues of collective local and global concern through film, believing in the potency of storytelling to move people, and to move people to action. Our widely recognized Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, Cine Latino, or daily screenings at The Main Cinema represent a diversity of perspectives and 100+ cultures and countries each year, providing unique platforms for learning and action through film and conversation.