INTO THE ICE

INTO THE ICE follows a number of groundbreaking and dangerous research expeditions over the Greenland Inland Ice. The ice at the poles is melting. This will result in huge rises of the sea level and have major consequences for the whole world. Director Lars Ostenfeld has gained unique access to follow some of the world’s leading glaciologists deep into the melting heart of climate change. They risk their own lives as they search for new and essential data to help answer one of the most urgent questions of our time: How fast is the ice melting – and how much time do we have to make a new plan for the world? The answer lies within the ice itself.

Lars Ostenfeld has many years of experience in science and nature documentaries. Most recently he shot and produced episodes of DR’s major nature series WILD, WONDERFUL DENMARK and the documentary TRACKING THE WOLF. Lars has worked on several award-winning programs for Danish broadcasters DR and TV2, including PH.D. CUP, realized in collaboration with the Lundbeck Foundation and Information, The Pain Experiment and Nature Live. Together with DTU Space and astrophysicist Anja C. Andersen from the Niels Bohr Institute, he also realized DR’s LIVE FROM SPACE, broadcasting for the first time 360-degree live footage from space using a balloon with live streaming cameras. Lars is also the director of THE POLAR BEAR LIVE, which was streamed directly to 200 TV screens during the COP22 climate summit, and LIVE FROM THE DEPTHS, which was broadcast live from a submarine 40 meters underwater and 100 kilometers offshore at the bottom of the North Sea.

Director & Cinematography
Lars Henrik Ostenfeld

Producer
Malene Flindt Pedersen, Stefan Kloos, Signe Skov Thomsen

Editor
Marion Tuor

Music
Kristian Eidnes Andersen

INTO THE ICE was supported by the DANISH FILM INSTITUTE DFI and is a co-production with TV 2 DENMARK and NORDDEUTSCHER RUNDFUNK in cooperation with ARTE. Additionally, the film was supported by THE LUNDBECK FOUNDATION, THE NOVO NORDISK FOUNDATION, THE CARLSBERG BEQUEST IN HONOUR OF J.C. JACOBSEN, AAGE V. JENSEN CHARITY FOUNDATION, QUEEN MARGRETHE’S AND PRINCE HENRIK’S FOUNDATION.