This week on the podcast, we journey to the far edges of the map — to the icy reaches of South Georgia Island — with award-winning filmmaker Kevin Schreck. His latest documentary, Antarctic Voyage, follows field biologist Dr. Samantha Monier on a research expedition into one of the planet’s most remote and fragile ecosystems..stk-2uya6xi {--stk-feature-flex-wrap:nowrap !important;}.stk-hjqgxg9 {align-self:center !important;}Screening 04/14 Antarctic Voyage will be shown ONE NIGHT ONLY at:Images Cinema,50 Spring Street,Williamstown, Mass. Tickets .stk-98csh02 {align-self:center !important;}Part adventure story, part visual meditation, Antarctic Voyage steps outside the conventions of the typical nature doc to offer something deeper: a poetic, urgent look at the wild lives still clinging to the polar margins — and the scientists fighting to understand and protect them.Stay with us. Rough TranscriptThe following transcript has an accuracy of approximately 98 percent.Top Left Corner: And welcome everyone to another episode of the Top Left Corner right here at The Greylock Glass GreylockGlass.com. I’m your host, Jay Velázquez, and I have a really fascinating conversation lined up for you. We’re going to be speaking with Kevin Schreck, a filmmaker who was the recipient of both the Jerome Hill Award for exceptional work in the documentary tradition and the recipient of the Award for contribution to the Film and Electronic Arts Department of Bard College as an educator. Kevin has been a teaching artist and mentor at Real Works, a Brooklyn based nonprofit dedicated to helping young aspiring filmmakers from low income backgrounds and underrepresented communities get a start in the very competitive film industry. Kevin has taught master classes and guest lectures on filmmaking and film history at major colleges and universities in Australia, Denmark, and across the United States. Kevin, it’s so good having you here on the show. Welcome.Home at Sea: The research vessel Laurence M. Gould served as home base for the month-long expedition around South Georgia Island, supporting scientists and filmmakers alike in one of the world’s most remote marine environments; photo courtesy Kevin Schreck.Kevin Schreck: Thank you. I’m glad to be here.Top Left Corner: Well, we’re going to be talking about, um, Antarctic voyage, uh, a monumental, uh, work of of documentary filmmaking in this sort of, you know. Uh, documentary tradition, but with some definite differences, um, which I know we’re going to get into. Um, first of all, let me know and let our audience know, um, how you ended up on a research vessel, um, circling the South Georgia island in in Antarctica.Kevin Schreck: Yeah. So. Well, I’ll jump to the moral of the story first, which is networking is everything. Um, because I was friends with someone back in college, Samantha Monnier and Sam, uh, her background, uh, earlier, uh, as a teenager was in musical theater. And so she always had a love of the arts and, uh, then found because she wanted to explore the world, um, a love of scientific research and adventure in those disciplines. And I was sort of the inverse of that, you know, uh, a filmmaker who, um, or aspiring filmmaker in college at least, who, uh, always loved the natural sciences, zoology, biology, paleontology, all those all those good ologies. And, um, we were friends then. We stayed in touch, became even closer friends, uh, after graduation years later. And then I would say, I think it would have been about 2018 or so. She reached out to me and said something along the lines of, hey, would you ever possibly, maybe consider, um, making a documentary in the Antarctic about scientific research and the wildlife down there. And of course, I said, yeah,
