Joel Heath
Born in St. John's, Newfoundland, Joel Heath has long nurtured passion for both arts and science. A leading Canadian ecologist, Joel worked in Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, studying effects of climate change on Arctic sea ice ecology. For his Ph.D., Joel worked with Inuit, developing time lapse monitoring technology and an underwater camera system to capture the world's first images of eiders diving below the sea ice. This led to Joel's involvement in BBC's Planet Earth: Ice Worlds and Frozen Planet. Joel Heath has been leading one of Canada's largest International Polar Year outreach projects. His research was recently published as the cover story in Proceedings of the Royal Society. During his time in the Arctic, Joel listened to the Inuit tell stories of a troubled future due to nearby hydroelectric dams. To help share these stories, Joel Heath collaborated with the community of Sanikiluaq to found Sanikiluaq Running Pictures and began a five-year process to create his first feature documentary, People of a Feather.
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People of a Feather
Featuring stunning footage from seven winters in the Arctic, _People of a Feather_ takes you through time into the world of the Inuit on the Belcher Islands in Canada's Hudson Bay. Connecting past, present and future is a unique relationship with the eider duck. Eider down, the warmest feather in the world, allows both Inuit and bird to survive harsh Arctic winters. Traditional life is jux...
People of a Feather
Featuring stunning footage from seven winters in the Arctic, _People of a Feather_ takes you through time into the world of the Inuit on the Belcher Islands in Canada's Hudson Bay. Connecting past, present and future is a unique relationship with the eider duck. Eider down, the warmest feather in the world, allows both Inuit and bird to survive harsh Arctic winters. Traditional life is jux...
