Planetwalker

USA | 2024 | 31 min • Documentary Short

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A Call from the Wild
Mary D. Fisher Theatre Sat, Feb 22, 2025 4:10 PM

Filmmaker Asgeir Helgestad documents the state of nature at his home country Norway, where he has photographed all his life. From the lives of bees at his farm, to wild reindeer on the high mountains, and puffins at the ocean’s edge, he shows the beauty of threatened nature and tracks down human actions responsible for its decline.


This is a personal story on our connection with the non-human world, the relations between the small and the big, and a reminder of nature’s strength and vulnerability.

A Call from the Wild
Harkins Sedona 6 -Theatre 1 Mon, Feb 24, 2025 1:00 PM

Filmmaker Asgeir Helgestad documents the state of nature at his home country Norway, where he has photographed all his life. From the lives of bees at his farm, to wild reindeer on the high mountains, and puffins at the ocean’s edge, he shows the beauty of threatened nature and tracks down human actions responsible for its decline.


This is a personal story on our connection with the non-human world, the relations between the small and the big, and a reminder of nature’s strength and vulnerability.

Film Info
Event Type:Documentary Short
Release Year:2024
Run Time:31
Production Country:USA
Original Language:English
Trailer:https://vimeo.com/921277607/00718a03bc
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Dominic Gill
Nadia Gill
Cast:John Francis
Producer(s):Nadia Gill
Michael Fearon
Screenwriter:Dominic Gill
Nadia Gill

Description

In 1971 John Francis, known the world over as ‘Planetwalker,’ witnessed an oil tanker collision in the San Francisco Bay. The sight of oiled birds on the shoreline caused him to give up motorized transport and rely solely on his own two feet. Months after that he took a vow of silence convinced that listening rather than adding fuel to any fire was the way ahead.