IMAX Film “Arctic: Our Frozen Planet” Released

The feature film adaptation of BBC’s Frozen Planet II is now starting to be released in IMAX cinemas in Canada and the US. International release dates vary, but if you live near an IMAX or giant screen cinema, there’s a good chance the film will play there in the coming months.

I’m very pleased to have contributed to this film. Filming for giant screen is a unique challenge, and for the Lapland bumblebee sequence we had to capture many shots twice: once composed for TV, and once again composed for giant screen.

Arctic: Our Frozen Planet is narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch.

At the top of our planet lies a magical realm of snow and ice – the Arctic. Every year it is transformed by an annual cycle of freeze and thaw. For millennia, this steady seasonal beat has allowed life to thrive. But our planet is warming, upsetting this natural balance and the Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else on Earth. Scientists are now discovering that what happens here, affects us all.

We will all be impacted by a warming Arctic… but none more so than local communities. Working with scientists, together they are shedding light on how changes to the Arctic’s natural balance affects each and every one of us … and they haven’t given up hope. Now it is up to us all to combat global warming and ensure there is a future for this fragile wilderness… Our frozen planet.