Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/15/2018
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location
Hopewell Theater
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March of the Penguins is a 2005 French feature-length nature documentary directed and co-written by Luc Jacquet, and co-produced by Bonne Pioche and the National Geographic Society. The documentary depicts the yearly journey of the emperor penguins of Antarctica. At the end of each Antarctic summer, the emperor penguins of the South Pole journey to their traditional breeding grounds in a fascinating mating ritual that is captured in this documentary by intrepid filmmaker Luc Jacquet. The journey across frozen tundra proves to be the simplest part of the ritual, as after the egg is hatched, the female must delicately transfer it to the male and make her way back to the distant sea to nourish herself and bring back food to her newborn chick.
March of the Penguins was released in France on January 26, 2005 and in the United States on June 24, 2005. The documentary won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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