On the Edge Antarctica

From its place anchoring the bottom of the globe, Antarctica might seem too frozen to have any impact on the rest of the planet. But, as shown in this 3D film, the very fact that it is constantly changing – the sea around it freezing and thawing every year – turns it into the planet’s beating heart, its rhythm intimately influencing the earth’s weather, ocean currents, and climate.

Director Bio
A six‐time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council and award‐winning writer and filmmaker, Bowermaster’s ten‐year‐long OCEANS 8 project took him and his teams around the world by sea kayak during the past ten years, on expeditions ranging from the Aleutian Islands to Vietnam, French Polynesia to Chile/Argentina/Bolivia, Gabon to Croatia, and Tasmania to Antarctica. Seeing the world from the seat of a sea kayak has given Bowermaster a one‐of‐a‐kind look at both the health of the planet’s oceans and the lives of the nearly four billion people around the globe who depend on them. His eight‐part film series documenting the OCEANS 8 project has shown in 150 countries on the National Geographic Channel.

Jon’s most recent documentaries are Terra Antarctica, Rediscovering the Seventh Continent, What Would Darwin Think? Man v. Nature in the Galapagos, and the prize‐winning SoLa, Louisiana Water Stories. His most recent films ‐‐ Dear Governor Cuomo and Sink or Swim, Learning the Crawl in the Maldives ‐‐ look at the controversy surrounding fracking in New York State and why so many coastal residents never learn to swim, though they live just a couple feet above sea level. He is at work on a new film that takes a nationwide look at fracking, called Dear President Obama, due out in 2015.

Jon’s newest film is the first 3D film to be shot in Antarctica. On the Edge, Antarctica 3D began distribution through museums and science institutions around the globe in the Fall of 2014.

Bowermaster lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.