Beating the Polar Blues
Bharati - INDIA
Description:
With the onset of the long and bleak polar night, the emperor penguins start vigil over their eggs. The members of Bharati Station try to find various ways to beat the dreaded “Polar Blues”. How will they manage to overcome?
Mohit Kumar Sharma (Director, Editor, Cinematography, Sound), Sahal Mohammed (Director, Cinematography, Worst of times placard), Dr. Neeraja Balakrishna (Producer, Script Writer, Makeup & Costume, Friends placard & Doctor), Chinmay Kumar Patra (Best of times placard), Ashok Dashrath Khutwad (Penguin), Liju Nayak (Mickey mouse), Shashibhushan Dohare (Carrom player 1 & Gym goer 2), Kamlesh Vishwakarma (Carrom player 2), Sushant Shripat Nate (Gym goer 1), Pranjal Saikia (Station Leader).
Piggyback Race: Dr. Siddarth Ravi, Motilal Bhal, N. Kaliyana Kumar, Nilesh Patil, Chinmay Kumar Patra, Shashibhushan Dohare, Shashikant Dadasao Gosavi, Sushant Nate, Mohit Kumar Sharma, Dr. Neeraja Balakrishna, Swapnil M. Sankhe.
Party: Sameer Chandravanshi, Ajit Konde Deshmukh, Dr. Siddarth Ravi, Motilal Bhal, N. Kaliyana Kumar, Nilesh Patil, Chinmay Kumar Patra, Shashibhushan Dohare, Shashikant Dadasao Gosavi, Sushant Nate, Mohit Kumar Sharma, Dr. Neeraja Balakrishna, Swapnil M. Sankhe, Robin Chaudhary, Sahal Mohammed, Gaurav Sharma, Sanjeev Kumar.
INDIA
Bharati
2023
48 Hrs Category
Winner No
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The Bird Island Show
Bird Island - UNITED KINGDOM
Description:
Four unsuspecting staff at Bird Island suddenly discover they’re the stars of the show, but they didn’t know.
Paul Anderson (Paramedic), Marcia Blyth (Seal Zoological Field Assistant), Tim Fokes (Technician), Rosie Hall (Albatross Zoological Field Assistant / Winter Station Leader).
UNITED KINGDOM
Bird Island
2023
48 Hrs Category
Winner No
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An ordinary weekend at the Artigas-Station
Artigas - URUGUAY
Description:
An ordinary weekend at the Artigas-Station.
Gustavo Diaz (Station Leader), Santiago Bude(Cook), Anibal Martinez (Logistic Suport), Alejandro Iguini (radio operator), Leonardo Fagundez (Electrical suport), Fabian Picos (diver), Ruben Auscarriaga (Mecanic) and Joaquin Correa (medical suport)
URUGUAY
Artigas
2023
48 Hrs Category
Winner No
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Antarctic Fallacies – Tales of the South Pole
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station - USA
Description:
There are many wrong theories about what happens at the South Pole, anything from ice walls to giant holes in the ice that burrow through the earth to the North Pole. Here we will be exploring some of these fallacies.
Howard Rodenberg (Doctor), Travis Groh (Waste Management), Jeff Capps (Foreman), Alexander Pollak (South Pole Telescope), Kyle Ferguson (South Pole Telescope), Manwei Chan (BICEP telescope), Darrien Reichler (NOAA), David DeLozier (Logistics), Hrvoje Dujmovic (Ice Cube), Marc Jacquart (Ice Cube), Martha Stansberry (Safety), Jay Walsh (Mechanic), Naweed Hashimi (SATCOM), Paul Coldren (IT)
USA
Amundsen-Scott South Pole
2023
48 Hrs Category
Winner No
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Bubblegum Brains
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station - USA
Description:
Bubblegum Brains follows the story of two people experiencing the effects of a winter and 6 months of no sunlight at the South Pole. David, a lover of making rational lists of the pros and cons of life in Antarctica, encounters Maggie, an eccentric scientist turned fashion designer. Each of them have found different ways to spend their time here at Pole but through a random, shared experience, they will each leave the continent with a shared story.
Maggie Hubbeling (NOAA Atmospheric Scientist), David Delozier Jr. (Supply Technician), Zach Mitilier (Fire Alarm Technician), Howard Rodenberg (Medical Doctor), Martha Stansberry (Safety Engineer)
USA
Amundsen-Scott South Pole
2023
48 Hrs Category
Winner No
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Drown me like one of your French girls
Amsterdam Island - FRANCE
Description:
A shipwreck survivor tells the tale of his adventure and the love story he never forgot.
Louis (Jacques), Marc (Rose), Jean-Philippe, Romain, Diane, Franck, Daniel, Gilles, Fabrice, Isabelle (Passengers)
FRANCE
Amsterdam Island (Martin-de-Vivies)
2023
48 Hrs Category
Winner No
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Scott Base Memory Loss
Scott Base - NEW ZEALAND
Description:
Join us as we reminisce through the good times, the bad times, and try to combat the effects of Polar T3 Syndrome to remember what we’ve done.
Alex “Dotcom” Sewell (Telecomm tech), Doug “The Extra Safe” Hawkins, Matty Jordan, Steve “Sooty” Denby, Ed Anscombe, Romina “Hermoine” Waller, Ghostman, Billy Brown, Brian “Bish” Bishop
NEW ZEALAND
Scott Base
2023
48 Hrs Category
Winner No
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For a few gallons more
Dumont D'Urville - FRANCE
Description:
Horror movie. During the winterover, DDU station's engines seem to become sentient and evil beings. From that point, a rapid descent to hell begins for these ten isolated humans ...
Pierre DELHAYE (tool maker), Victor DERCKSEN (mechanic), Hervé FAUVRE (weatherman), Mélaine GAREL (engineer), Noë GERMAIN (cook), Pauline JAUNET (weatherwoman), Laurent LE GUINIEC (station leader), Thomas LOCHARD (carpenter), Quentin POCHEVEUX (electrician), Enzo TAHON (computer sc.)
FRANCE
Dumont d’Urville
2023
Open Category
Winner No
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Those that are lost but not forgotten
SANAE IV - SOUTH AFRICA
Description:
A short film depicted in a horror theme of expeditions members leaving the station who does not return and assumed to be lost. The remaining team members mourn their lose, after which the ghosts from the lost members return to base as if they've never been lost. The creepy events that occur around the station frightens the remaining members causing them to run out of fear leaving the station.
Abby Paton (Station Leader/Medical Doctor), DJ van Wyk (Deputy Station Leader/SANSA Electronics Engineer), Alan Daniels (Diesel Mechanic), Kuselo Vatyana (Base Engineer), Themba Luphuwana (Communications Engineer), Tlhonolofatso Tebele (Meteorologist), Nivek Ghazi (SANSA Electronics Engineer)
SOUTH AFRICA
SANAE IV
2023
48 Hrs Category
Winner No
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1st overwintering at Jang Bogo Station
Jang Bogo - REPUBLIC OF KOREA
Description:
The Republic of Korea constructed Jang Bogo Station at the Northern Victoria Land in 2014. The 1st overwintering Team arrived at the end of construction in February, 2014 and started their overwintering there. Even Korea has operated King Sejong Station at the King George Island since 1988, it is the 1st overwintering at the Antarctic continent. The movie showed the construction process and the major event during the overwintering.