Sarah Robertson, Director/Producer

Arctic Bear Productions

Sarah Robertson co-directed Arctic Tale, a coming of age story about a bear and a walrus facing new challenges in a warming Arctic world. The movie is based on Robertson’s 15 years of observation and film documentation in the north and expresses her concern about the urgent danger of global warming that is facing one of the most awe-inspiring places on our planet, and ultimately our own lives.

After receiving her B.A. from Carleton University in Canada, Robertson spent two years traveling alone over the globe before becoming a filmmaker. In 1990, accompanied by her husband, director/cinematographer Adam Ravetch, Robertson journeyed to the Canadian Arctic and dove under the polar ice cap. Together they started to make their first Arctic film, Toothwalkers. After winning the Marion Zunz Newcomer Award at the 1997 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, Robertson formed her company Arctic Bear Productions. Under that company she has produced and co-written six arctic-based films for National Geographic TV and other international broadcasters. Their work has been acknowledged by several prestigious awards, including an Emmy, the Gold Palmes D’or Fest Mondial de L’image Sous-Marine, Best Director Award, at the Jules Verne Festival. Robertson is to be awarded the Lowell Thomas award this fall in recognition for her work bringing awareness to arctic climate change.

Robertson and Ravetch are known for putting themselves in remarkable situations in the wild to get stunning images and they make it a family effort. Robertson regularly takes her three children north to live closely with the indigenous Inuit people who are among the most interesting survivalists in the world. With a view at helping to preserve the Arctic, Robertson and Ravetch founded The Arctic Photographic Exploration charitable fund, an organization that seeks to discover and film the responses of arctic wildlife reacting to the rapid environmental changes taking place in the North.

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