Flight of the Butterflies

Flight of the Butterflies

6.4 | 2012-10-01 | Documentary

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.

Featured Crew

Mike Slee Director
Simon De Glanville Director of Photography
Mike Slee Writer
Rafael Cuervo Producer
Mike Slee Producer
Jacobo Lieberman Original Music Composer
Myles Connolly Supervising Producer
Jonathan Barker Producer
Joanna Baldwin-Mallory Co-Executive Producer
Wendy MacKeigan Writer

Cast

Megan Follows
Megan Follows
Narrator
Gordon Pinsent
Gordon Pinsent
Dr Fred Urquhart
Shaun Benson
Shaun Benson
Ken Brugger
Patricia Phillips
Patricia Phillips
Norah Urquhart
Stephanie Sigman
Stephanie Sigman
Catalina Aguado
Jayden Greig
Jayden Greig
Ice cream boy

Images

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