Chasing Ice<http://www.facebook.com/chasingice?group_id=0> is opening at The Grand Cinema<http://www.facebook.com/TheGrandTacoma?group_id=0> this Friday, March 8. Zoo staff biologists and educators will lead a community discussion following the 6:35 p.m. showing. And after the 2:00 Sunday show, Skype Q&A with director, Jeff Orlowski. For movie information please visit www.grandcinema.com/movie.php?id=780<http://www.grandcinema.com/movie.php?id=780>. Acclaimed National Geographic photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In Chasing Ice, Balog deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers. His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate. Traveling with a team of young adventurers across the brutal Arctic, Balog risks his career and his well-being in pursuit of the biggest story facing humanity. As the debate polarizes America, and the intensity of natural disasters ramps up globally, Chasing Ice depicts a heroic photojournalist on a mission to deliver fragile hope to our carbon-powered planet. "The most important documentary of the year." -Tom Long, Detroit News "CHASING ICE aims to accomplish, with pictures, what all the hot air that has been generated on the subject of global warming hasn't been able to do: make a difference." - Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post