Living Lakes Canada partners with National Film Board to host virtual ‘Losing Blue’ screening
Immerse yourself in a visual journey through ancient mountain lakes in Losing Blue, a cinematic poem about climate change impacts on mountain lakes.
Living Lakes Canada has partnered with the National Film Board to host an exclusive online screening of Losing Blue on Wednesday, January 31 at 5:00 PM PST / 6:00 PM MST / 8:00 PM EST. Filmmaker Leanne Allison will introduce the film (16 minutes; 40 seconds long), which will be followed by a 15-minute talk on the science behind the film delivered by Losing Blue’s science advisors, Janet Fischer and Mark Olson, who are also advisors for Living Lakes Canada’s High Elevation Monitoring Program. The event will conclude with a Q&A where audience members can ask questions and better understand the impacts of climate change on mountain lakes and watersheds.
From the National Film Board website:
What does it mean to lose a colour? Losing Blue is a cinematic poem that delves into the impending loss of some of the most extraordinary blues on Earth—the otherworldly blues of ancient mountain lakes. Glacier-fed alpine lakes each have a unique blue formed by the mountains and ice that shaped them. These intense colours hold the memory of “deep time,” geological processes millions of years old. Now climate change is rapidly accelerating environmental shifts and causing some of these spectacular blues to vanish. Losing Blue is an expansive metaphor for the massive and subtle impacts of climate change. With stunning cinematography, the film immerses viewers in the magnificence of lakes so rare that most have never seen them, pulling us in so that we experience these bodies of water as if we were standing alone on their rocky shores—witnesses to their power and acutely aware of what their loss would mean, both for ourselves and for the Earth. Filmmaker Leanne Allison’s (Bear 71) narration intimately balances J.B. MacKinnon’s (The 100-Mile Diet) eloquent science writing. This short documentary gently asks what it might mean to forget that the ethereal blues of these lakes ever existed.
Awards and Festivals
- Best Canadian Short Film at the Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival (2023)
- Official Selection Calgary International Film Festival (2023)
- Official Selection Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival (2023)
Don’t miss out! Experience “Losing Blue” from home.
