Flight of the Butterflies (2012)
It takes two or three generations for the monarch butterfly to reach the Canadian breeding grounds, but it is one "supergeneration" that makes the 2,000 mile return trip back south into central Mexico. The documentary film covers Dr Fred Urquhart's interest in monarch butterflies, with perspectives of Urquhart as a child wondering where the butterflies went, his years of research and study into their life and migration, to his time decades-later as a senior scientist looking back at his investigations and discoveries about the insect's life pattern.
Director: Mike Slee
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Megan Follows as Narrator |
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Gordon Pinsent as Dr Fred Urquhart |
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Shaun Benson as Ken Brugger |
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Patricia Phillips as Norah Urquhart |
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Sofía Sisniega as Chloe |
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Stephanie Sigman as Catalina Aguado |
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Jayden Greig as Ice cream boy |
| Directing | Mike Slee | Director |
| Camera | Simon De Glanville | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Mike Slee | Writer |
| Production | Rafael Cuervo | Producer |
| Production | Mike Slee | Producer |
| Sound | Jacobo Lieberman | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Myles Connolly | Supervising Producer |
| Production | Jonathan Barker | Producer |
| Production | Joanna Baldwin-Mallory | Co-Executive Producer |
| Writing | Wendy MacKeigan | Writer |
| Production | Jonathan Barker | Executive Producer |
| Production | Maria Elena Gutierrez Santoscoy | Co-Executive Producer |
| Editing | Susan Shipton | Editor |
| Sound | Leonardo Heiblum | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Wendy MacKeigan | Co-Executive Producer |
| Production | Kym Crepin | Line Producer |