When our own Barbara Doran gets together with Montreal’s Josh Freed you know you’re in for some professional film fun. Indeed, Life Below Zero is their playful doc essay on the what, how, and why of northern peoples—that is, unlucky people like us who insist on inhabiting forbidding climates. As this wide-ranging study shows, people accommodate themselves to frigid weather in all kinds of nutty ways, from polar swimming to Florida escapism. Comparatively speaking, the Russians are indifferent, the Scandinavians embrace it, and Canadians generally loathe the white stuff but we cope because we have to. It’s better in the Bahamas, no?

Embracing Winter – a great article about Life Below Zero from The Telegram

Writer, Director: Josh Freed
Producer: Barbara Doran
Documentary
44 minutes
Canada