THE FILMMAKERS
CHASING ICE is directed by Jeff Orlowski, cinematographer for the Extreme Ice Survey, and an award-winning filmmaker. A graduate of Stanford University, he has been working with Balog since 2007 and has shot over 300 hours of footage of EIS in the field. His work for EIS has screened on NBC, CNN, PBS, National Geographic, and hundreds of other venues around the world, including a multi-year installation at the Denver International Airport.
The film is produced by Paula DuPre' Pesmen, the winner of the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary and 2010 Producers Guild of America 'Producer of the Year' for her role on The Cove. She has also served as producer on three Harry Potter films, Rent, and Mrs. Doubtfire. The film is also produced by Jerry Aronson, nominated for an Academy Award for the documentary The Divided Trail, and the director of The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg, which also premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and has won over 250 international awards.
The writer, Mark Monroe, won the Writers Guild of America (WGA) award for Best Documentary in 2010 for his work on The Cove. His credits also include The Tillman Story, the WGA nominated film Once in a Lifetime, and through his company Diamond Docs, he worked on We Live In Public. Film composer J. Ralph is well known for his documentary work including the scores to the back to back Academy Award® winning films The Cove and Man on a Wire as well as the autism documentary Wretches and Jabberers by Oscar® winning director Gerrardine Wurzburg. His most recent film projects include 2011's Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary Hell and Back Again, for which J. Ralph wrote and produced the score, sound design and end title song "Hell and Back" performed by Willie Nelson and the score for Chasing Ice premiering at this year's 2012 Sundance film festival.
Davis Coombe, the editor, received an Academy Award nomination for his short documentary The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner and is currently shortlisted for the upcoming Academy Awards for his film Saving Face.
