In the remote Russian Arctic, an aging scientist and his son are trying to recreate the Ice Age. They call their experiment Pleistocene Park – a perfect home for woolly mammoths, resurrected by modern genetics. But the mammoths are only a means to a bigger end: defusing a carbon timebomb frozen in the permafrost to slow the effects of global warming.
Film by Grant Slater
Based on “Pleistocene Park” by Ross Andersen of The Atlantic
theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/pleistocene-park/517779/
Original Score by Kyle Scott Wilson
Animation by Casey Drogin
Chersky Drone Photography by Luke Griswold-Tergis
African Savannah Photography by Brian Dawson
With Support From Mountainfilm
Sergey Zimov’s Pleistocene Park Manifesto