Stephani Gordon | 10 min | USA | 2011

WORLD PREMIERE

Enter into the ultra-adventurous world of pilot-biologists chasing wild birds in the no-man’s-land north of the arctic circle. Their world is one of beauty and grit, humor and science.  The tundra swans they study are magnificent creatures, traveling to both sides of the straight of Beringia, the thin stretch of water that separates Alaska from Russia. This east-west connection is what endangers the birds, and potentially, the humans that interact with them.

SCREENING SCHEDULE
Controlled Experiment
8:00pm  Monday, October 17, 2011
The Bell House

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Director | Stephani Gordon
Producer | Stephani Gordon
Cinematographer | Stephani Gordon
Editor | Stephani Gordon
Sound Design | Heidi DuBose, Troy William Dunn

DIRECTOR BIO
With 12 years of marine field research experience, Stephani is in her element filming science expeditions. She has worked in remote stretches of the wilderness as well as protected areas near cities. This past year Stephani filmed tundra swan research in northern Alaska, coral reefs in Moorea, pronghorn antelope in Wyoming, ships wrecked on atolls northwest of Hawaii, Joshua trees in the Mojave, and native songbirds and seabirds in Hawaii. The unpredictable nature of working in the field, the creative and intellectual challenges of editing, and most of all the chance to help researchers communicate their science is what drives her love of filmmaking. Stephani’s home-base is located outside Bozeman, Montana.

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