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※※※※※※※ 影片信息 ※※※※※※※ 【原 片 名】Water Life
【中文译名】生命之水
【出品公司】Cin-TV
【出品年代】2007/2009
【上映日期】2009年6月5日
【国 家】加拿大
【类 别】纪录片
【制作团队】
Directed by Kevin McMahon
Produced by Kristina Mclaughlin, Michael McMahon, Gerry Flahive (NFB)
Narrator: Gord Downie
Cinematographer: John Minh Tran
Editor: Christopher Donaldson
【影片长度】每集约25分钟
【影片简介】
The Documentary Waterlife is Produced by Primitive Entertainment in co-production with The National Film Board of Canada with the participation of Telefilm Canada in association with Big Picture Media Corporation, NHK, Sundance Channel, Canwest Global
The film tells the epic story of the Great Lakes by following the cascade of its water from northern Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean, through the lives of some of the 35 million people who rely on the lake for survival.
Providing earth with 20% of its surface fresh water and its third largest industrial economy, the Great Lakes are a unique and precious resource under assault by toxins, sewage, invasive species, evaporating water and profound apathy. They are also one of the planet's great preserves of extraordinary wilderness beauty and a bounty of unique species.
WATERLIFE blends these realities with a dreamlike fluidity as it pours through the lives of some amazing characters. We meet an Anishinabe medicine woman who walked 16,000 miles around the lakes to sympathize with them; the last of the great Michigan fishing families; a man whose lakefront home now borders a field thanks to sewer overflows; the people of a village where mysterious toxins ensure that most new babies are girls; and the residents of Love Canal, a notorious Niagara Falls neighborhood abandoned in the 1970s and now dubiously refurbished.
Along the way, WATERLIFE show viewers the Great Lakes as they might appear to a seagull, a fish or a water molecule...and from a myriad of other amazing perspectives. Filmed over a full year with a battery of specialty cameras and techniques, WATERLIFE provides an unprecedented view of an incredible ecosystem rarely seen by the city dwellers who form most of its population. From the ornate fountains of Chicago to the sewers of Windsor, viewers are carried through marsh and pipe, across pounding waves and through thunder clouds on a journey which, as the film says, has no "ending or beginning, that shpaes every body it passes through and unites them all across space and time."
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WATERLIFE follows the epic cascade of the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. From the icy cliffs of Lake Superior to the ornate fountains of Chicago to the sewers of Windsor, this feature-length documentary tells the story of the last huge supply (20 per cent) of fresh water on Earth.
The source of drinking water, fish and emotional sustenance for 35 million people, the Great Lakes are under assault by toxins, sewage, invasive species, dropping water levels and profound apathy. Some scientists believe the lakes are on the verge of ecological collapse.
Filled with fascinating characters and stunning imagery, WATERLIFE is an epic cinematic poem about the beauty of water and the dangers of taking it for granted.
The film is narrated by The Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie and features music by Sam Roberts, Sufjan Stevens, Sigur Ros, Robbie Robertson and Brian Eno.
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Water Life captures extraordinary locations and intimate animal behavior never before seen on film. Two years in the making, this groundbreaking series takes viewers on an unprecedented visual journey to aquatic ecosystems on five continents to reveal how water shapes and sculpts the landscape and provides food and refuge for an astonishing array of species. This epic series tells water's story as never before to engage viewers in vital discussions about how water must be conserved and preserved. The most educational series ever filmed on planet water, viewers will learn the impact of climate change, pollution and other factors that are changing the environment and affecting each and every one of us.
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Disc1 (Planet Water):
1. A World of Water
2. Where Water is Born
3. Water's Pulse
4. Uncertain Water
5. Making Of
Planet Water contains these five programs: A World of Water, Where Water is born, Water's Pulse, Uncertain Water, and The Making of (Planet Water). The story of water is the story of life. Explore an array of aquatic ecosystems that reveal water's many surprising faces. From wild and pure mountain lakes, where rivers begin, to magnificent coral reefs constructed by millions of coral polyps, this is an epic portrait of life's rich diversity, and eye-opening testimony to the dangers that threaten our Blue Planet.
