Healy
Follow the crew of USCGC Healy to where shipmates encounter the singular beauty of the frozen Arctic Ocean. Through rare access to film onboard the sole US icebreaker, we see this stunning environment through the eyes of those observing it firsthand. Researchers descend onto the ice pack to deploy equipment for year-round monitoring that is critical to our understanding of climate change.
Filmmaker: Maya Craig
Running Time: 14 mins
Language: English with Open Captions
Type: Short
Maya Craig is a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer based in San Francisco and working internationally. She has been a National Geographic Explorer since 2019 looking at the global climate and geopolitical impacts of a warming Arctic, a journey that has brought her to Alaska, Svalbard, Iceland, and across Europe to film with scientists, policymakers, and indigenous communities. Her first documentary Water Town, about a water privatization conflict in Northern California, was broadcast nationally on PBS and helped lead to the town securing its water rights. Maya is a fellow at London’s Royal Geographical Society, and holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Science from Colorado College and a Master’s in Documentary Film from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.
