Flight of the Butterflies(Movie, 2012)

Name: Flight of the Butterflies
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012
Duration: T00:45:00
Rating: 3.2

| 45min | Genre: Documentary

Rating: 3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

Flight of the Butterflies is a 2012 Canadian documentary film directed and co-written by Mike Slee for 3D IMAX, starring Megan Follows, Gordon Pinsent, and Shaun Benson. The film covers Dr. Fred Urquhart's nearly 40-year-long scientific investigation into the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), tracking the details of what is considered one of the longest known insect migrations: the flight of the monarch butterfly from Central Mexico to the United States and Canada and back. ()

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About Flight of the Butterflies

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.

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Official Theatrical Trailer(Trailer, 1:09)

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Production countries: Canada, United Kingdom (UK), Mexico

Made by: SK Films, Sin Sentido Films, Thillaye Productions, Footsteps Post-Production Sound, Spence-Thomas Audio

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 8 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 10/01/2012

Cast: Gordon Pinsent

Director: Mike Slee

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"IMAX - 帝王蝶的遷徙"

"나비의 비행"

"플라이트 오브 더 버터플라이즈"

"El vuelo de la monarca"

"El vuelo de las mariposas"

Keywords: nature, mexico, short film, butterfly

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