Vanessa Wells has been making films for over 20 years. She’s also a veteran of three trips to Antarctica, and can legitimately claim to have a polar passion. She’s currently working on The Climate Canary, a documentary about the global significance of the frozen continent. She believes that science and art, interwoven in the medium […]
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