Into the Cold: A Journey of the Soul
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Into the Cold: A Journey of the Soul is a feature documentary film
written and directed by Sebastian Copeland
that follows two men's journey to the geographic North Pole in 2009, commemorating the centennial of Admiral Peary's successful 1909 reach.
The film retraces the training and two-month expedition of Sebastian Copeland and his partner Keith Heger as they cover more than 400 miles on foot in sub-zero temperatures. Into the Cold communicates the message that there will be no bicentennial expedition to the North Pole due to the rapidly vanishing polar ice cap
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., and the 2010 Blue Planet Film Fest. At the Indie Spirit Film Festival 2010, Into the Cold was the Audience Award Winner for Best Sports/Adventure Film. The film was also the Winner for Best Director and 2nd Place Winner for Documentary Feature at the Los Angeles Reel Film Festival in 2009.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
written and directed by Sebastian Copeland
Sebastian Copeland
Sebastian Copeland is an award winning photographer, author, lecturer, extreme outdoor adventurer and environmental activist. He has led numerous expeditions around the globe to photograph and film endangered environments...
that follows two men's journey to the geographic North Pole in 2009, commemorating the centennial of Admiral Peary's successful 1909 reach.
The film retraces the training and two-month expedition of Sebastian Copeland and his partner Keith Heger as they cover more than 400 miles on foot in sub-zero temperatures. Into the Cold communicates the message that there will be no bicentennial expedition to the North Pole due to the rapidly vanishing polar ice cap
Polar ice cap
A polar ice cap is a high latitude region of a planet or natural satellite that is covered in ice. There are no requirements with respect to size or composition for a body of ice to be termed a polar ice cap, nor any geological requirement for it to be over land; only that it must be a body of...
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Critical reception
During its first festival run in 2010, Into the Cold was awarded official selection of the 2010 Tribeca Film FestivalTribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...
., and the 2010 Blue Planet Film Fest. At the Indie Spirit Film Festival 2010, Into the Cold was the Audience Award Winner for Best Sports/Adventure Film. The film was also the Winner for Best Director and 2nd Place Winner for Documentary Feature at the Los Angeles Reel Film Festival in 2009.