Flight of the Butterflies
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Flight of the Butterflies (2012)

01/10/2012
Documentary
45m

Overview

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.

  • Mike SleeDirector, Writer
  • Wendy MacKeiganWriter
  • Status

    Released

  • Original Language

    English

Keywords

  • mexico
  • nature
  • butterfly
  • short film

Top Billed Cast

Megan Follows

Megan Follows

Narrator

Gordon Pinsent

Gordon Pinsent

Dr Fred Urquhart

Shaun Benson

Shaun Benson

Ken Brugger

Patricia Phillips

Norah Urquhart

Sofía Sisniega

Sofía Sisniega

Chloe

Stephanie Sigman

Stephanie Sigman

Catalina Aguado

Jayden Greig

Jayden Greig

Ice cream boy

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