The Last Continent

20081 h 45 min 32 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Jean Lemire

Production: David ReckziegelJean Lemire

Produced by Glacialis Production in association with CBC Television with the participation of the Québec Film and Television Tax Credit - Gestion SODEC, the Canadian Television Fund, the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit, SODEC, Telefilm Canada, the National Film Board of Canada and Rogers Documentary Fund.

Biologist and filmmaker Jean Lemire, accompanied aboard the schooner Sedna IV by a handpicked team of scientists and filmmakers, dared to experience climate change and its consequences within Antarctica’s icy grip.

More than a full year of daring, isolation, danger, intensity: it was a spectacular adventure full of risks and triumphs, joys and perils. The crew was prepared for the worst but faced even worse!

The Last Continent is a testament to a human adventure at once chilling and inspiring. The film alternates between captivating images of deep serenity and spine-tingling sequences in which the ship’s crew finds itself, time and again, on the edge of catastrophe.

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  • Geography and Geology > Exploration and Expeditions

Credits


director
Jean Lemire
narrator
Donald Sutherland
editing
Michel Grou
cinematography
Martin Leclerc
Mario Cyr
Stephan Menghi
sound
Marco Fania
Jean-François Sauvé
Serge Boivin
original score
Simon Leclerc
participation
Patrick Watson
expedition team
Jean Lemire
Caroline Underwood
Germain Tremblay
René Turenne
Marcel Dubé
Martine Bourque
Mario Cyr
Charles Cormier
Gaston Arseneau
Geoff Green
Mariano Lopez
François Prévost
Suzie Tector
Ricardo Sahade
Pascale Otis
Joëlle Proulx
Amélie Breton
Martin Leclerc
Stephan Menghi
Jean-François Priester
Claude Fortin
Nicolas Samarine
Marco Fania
Stévens Pearson
Serge Boudreau
Damian Lopez
Sébastien Roy
Michel Valiquette
Alain Belhumeur
Line Richard
Hélène Bélanger
script contributor
Dominic Champagne
Robert Blondin
Jacques Payette
English adaptation
Jacob Potashnik
additional shooting
François Prévost
additional sound
Jean-François Priester
Nicolas Samarine
1st assistant
Mariano Lopez
underwater camera assistant
Serge Boudreau
key grip
Claude Fortin
logging
Amélie Breton
digitization
Amélie Breton
editing assistant
Véronique Chaput
Alain Martinet
online editing
Nicolas Gauthier
dialogue editing
France Leduc
Mira Mailhot
translation
Christine York
Kathleen Fee
Mark Stout
voice director
Hubert Fielden
voice recording
Martin Prévost
technical coordination
Jean-François Laprise
France Couture
post-production coordination
Georges Jardon
Guy Langlois
assistant
François Pilon
Jean-Pierre Champagne
James Clemens Seelys
Joëlle Bergeron
music engraving
François Pilon
recording session coordination
François Pilon
sound recording - music
Claude Champagne
Pierre-Philippe Boulay
René Laflamme
musician
Danièle Bourget
Pierre-Vincent Plante
Alain Desgagné
Mathieu Harel
John Milner
Marjolaine Goulet
Jean Gaudreault
Andrei Malashenko
Jacques Lavallée
Jennifer Swartz
Richard Roberts
Marc Béliveau
Ann Chow
Sophie Dugas
Sofia Gentile
Luis Grinhauz
Johannes Jansonius
Marie Lacasse
Elise Lortie
Alison Mah-Poy
Ingrid Matthiessen
Myriam Pellerin
Monique Poitras
Susan Pulliam
Gratiel Robitaille
Charles Meinen
Jocelyne Bastien
Chantale Boivin
Anna-Belle Marcotte
Jasmine Schnarr
Joanne Wojtowicz
Pierre Djokic
Karen Baskin
Christine Giguère
Sylvie Lambert
Gerald Morin
Eric Chappell
Jacques Beaudoin
Edward Wingell
re-recording
Claude Champagne
Simon Leclerc
Dolby sound consultant
Paul Sacco
production consultant
Caroline Underwood
mission leader
Geoff Green
3D artist
Tram Luong
timing
Julie Fontaine
colourist
Art Montreuil
coordination
Josiane Fradette
Ève Brunet
insurance broker
Linda Dubuc
financing
Édith Courchesne
legal advisor
Lussier & Khouzam
Fernand Deveau
auditor
Fauteux Bruno Bussière Leewarden
executive producer
David Reckziegel
producer
Jean Lemire
associate producer
Josée Roberge
line production
Josée Roberge
production coordinator
Catherine Beaudoin
Catherine Boire
Marie-Eve Grisé-Blais
production assistant
Geneviève Lagacé
lead researcher
Pascale Bilodeau
production accountant
Jean-Paul Landry