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Flight of the Butterflies (2012)

Flight of the Butterflies (2012)

Documentary
Release Date: 2012, October 1
Directors: Mike Slee
Countries: Canada, United Kingdom, Mexico
Production: Thillaye Productions, Footsteps Post-Production Sound, SK Films, Sin Sentido Films, Spence-Thomas Audio
Cast: Jayden Greig, Stephanie Sigman, Megan Follows, Shaun Benson, Gordon Pinsent, Patricia Phillips, Sofía Sisniega

Overview:

It takes two or three generations for the monarch butterfly to reach the Canadian breeding grounds, but it is one "supergeneration" that makes the 2,000 mile return trip back south into central Mexico. The documentary film covers Dr Fred Urquhart's interest in monarch butterflies, with perspectives of Urquhart as a child wondering where the butterflies went, his years of research and study into their life and migration, to his time decades-later as a senior scientist looking back at his investigations and discoveries about the insect's life pattern.

Keywords:

short film mexico nature butterfly