Flight of the Butterflies (2012)

G 45 minutes EN Documentary
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.
Simon De Glanville
Director of Photography
Jacobo Lieberman
Original Music Composer
Susan Shipton
Editor
Leonardo Heiblum
Original Music Composer

Cast

Megan Follows
Narrator
Gordon Pinsent
Dr Fred Urquhart
Shaun Benson
Ken Brugger
Patricia Phillips
Norah Urquhart
Stephanie Sigman
Catalina Aguado
Jayden Greig
Ice cream boy

Crew

Simon De Glanville
Director of Photography
Jacobo Lieberman
Original Music Composer
Leonardo Heiblum
Original Music Composer
Mike Slee
Producer
Rafael Cuervo
Producer
Myles Connolly
Supervising Producer
Jonathan Barker
Executive Producer
Joanna Baldwin-Mallory
Co-Executive Producer
Wendy MacKeigan
Co-Executive Producer
Maria Elena Gutierrez Santoscoy
Co-Executive Producer
Kym Crepin
Line Producer