National Institutes of Health to Host Earth Day Screenings of PROJECT: ICE

April 14, 2016

Washington, D.C. – PROJECT: ICE, the award-winning 4K Great Lakes documentary feature film from director William Kleinert, will screen in Bethesda, Maryland on Friday, April 22 at 9:30 AM and 1:00 PM, presented by National Institutes of Health and the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital. This film concerning diminished Great Lakes ice comes at a pressing time when new research detailing Antarctic ice loss shows that sea levels could rise nearly four feet, twice as much as previously predicted, unless societies make sharp cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

PROJECT: ICE reveals the story of the Great Lakes through the prism of ice, from the crossroads of history, science and climate change.

McLean-based, Kleinert is a committed environmentalist, avid student of history and media veteran with in-depth experience across traditional and new technology platforms, content creation and distribution channels. Kleinert is producer, director and writer of six documentaries, including, “Aaron Copland: The Composer Conducts” and the three-part “Saving The Environment” series, as well as 600 television commercials, dozens of corporate and association productions and music videos. This is the first feature film for Executive Producers Kleinert and McLean native Leslie Johnson.

A panel discussion will follow the 9:30 AM screening with Kleinert, Dr. John Balbus, Senior Advisor for Public Health at NIH and National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, and PROJECT: ICE Science Advisor, geophysicist and climatologist, Dr. Henry Pollack, who shares in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize as a Contributing Author to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

PROJECT: ICE is an "Official Selection" of eighteen festivals from Washington, DC to Los Angeles, from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Bangalore, India, including opening the 2015 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital. The film won the "Award for Excellence in Filmmaking" from the Canada International Film Festival in Vancouver, British Columbia, "Best Documentary" at the East Lansing Film Festival, "Awards Finalist Honors" at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival in Vermont and Audience Choice Award for "Best Documentary Feature" at the Soo Film Festival in Michigan.

North America’s five Great Lakes – Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario – contain a staggering twenty percent of all the fresh surface water on the planet. Lake Superior alone contains ten percent of Earth’s fresh surface water. Formed by ice, filled by ice, and often covered with ice, the Great Lakes encapsulate human exploration, migration, and development. Ice sits at the heart of it all.

PROJECT: ICE reveals an indisputable record of increasing water temperatures and strikingly diminished ice cover. It’s an environmental and economic wake up call from the heartland of the North America, a basin that is home to 40 million Americans and Canadians.

About Tillinghast Reid WorldWide

PROJECT: ICE was produced by Tillinghast Reid WorldWide, LLC, a media production and consulting firm based in Washington, DC. Formed in 1997, TRWW has produced feature film and video projects focused on the environment, climate change, history and science.

The official trailer is available on the PROJECT: ICE website: http://ProjectIceMovie.com

Event info and registration: http://projecticemovie.com/nih-earth-day-screenings/

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