ZDF Presents New Doc on Climate Change

MAINZ: ZDF Enterprises has taken on the worldwide distribution rights for the ecological HD documentary The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning across all media. 

The one-hour doc looks at Antarctica to spotlight the climate-change crisis. It explores first-hand the environmental challenges facing that frozen continent and, by extension, the world. The film features the scientists working at Vernadsky Station, who have teamed up with the British Antarctic Survey as they concentrate their efforts living in often harsh and life-threatening conditions. The documentary also provides support interviews from polar experts and research scientists around the world as well as rare footage of wildlife, including penguins in their hatching season. The film reports on the new phenomenon of suicide among penguins, the imminent rise of the world’s sea level due to ice melting and show amazing footage of new vegetation growing in the world’s largest desert.

Christian Massmann, the head of sales at ZDF Enterprises, said: "It is a particular honor to be in charge of the worldwide distribution of this very particular documentary. We are confident that our worldwide connections will allow us to promote the program in the best possible way and to thus assist in spreading the environmental message to as many people as possible".

"I am delighted to have this important film represented by ZDF Enterprises," added Mark Terry, the film’s producer, director and writer. "Since it is the only film reporting on the new climate change discoveries made by the world’s scientific community stationed in Antarctica during International Polar Year, it is crucial that this film and its message reach as many people as possible. The United Nations is taking it to our world leaders and ZDF will be taking it to the rest of the world."