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Whale Mission: Keepers of Memory
Jean Lemire & Caroline Underwood, Canada, documentary, 60 min., 2005
World Premiere
 The Last Giants takes viewers on a scientific expedition into the migration patterns of the right whale. Decimated by whaling in the 19th and 20th centuries, the northern right whale is the planet’s most endangered large whale species - today there are fewer than 350 remaining. Far from the coast, this vast watery wilderness still conceals many mysteries and maybe some new whales. Could they be the key to the future of right whales and possibly provide clues to the survival of the species? – R.S
Caroline Underwood is a senior producer, director and writer with more than twenty award-winning documentaries for the CBC's science series, The Nature of Things. Her credits include Up Close and Toxic, The Salmon Forest, and Mission Artique:Les Seigneurs de l'Artique/Lords of the Arctic. Since 1982 her focus has been on wildlife and environmental subjects.Underwood is also a member of the PIF Advisory Council Jean Lemire is a biologist by training, and a filmmaker who is based in the Magdelene Islands.
He has transformed his ship the SEDNA IV into a one-of-a-kind classroom. Connected to the Internet via satellite uplink, Jean and his crew bring a first hand experience of the oceans to a worldwide audience. Between 1996 and 1998 he worked with "Pierre Brochu and Poly-Productions" producing award winning television programming. In 2001, Jean founded the production company Glacialis Inc. and after producing "7 km2 d’infini", on the life of the inhabitants of Ile d’Entrée, he began work on "Mission Arctique", a vast film and multimedia project where the SEDNA is used as a floating educational platform.
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