Glacial Balance is a journey along the spine of the Andes mountain range, from Colombia to Argentina, getting to know the individuals and lives of those who are first affected by the dwindling glacier reserve, the canaries in the mine.
My motivation in making this film began as a means of grasping the importance of glaciers in my own life. The more I learned, I began to understand how little society is aware of the workings of the natural world and thus felt that through stories of human impact, an emotional connection can be made to climate change. The film plants the stories and ideas of these individuals’ lives in the viewer’s mind, not just numbers and graphs, causing a human to human connection to the changing world around us.
