Screening of National Geographic’s ENDURANCE
In a legendary feat of leadership and perseverance, polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton kept his crew of 27 men alive for over a year despite the loss of their ship in frigid pack ice. Over a century later, a team of modern-day explorers sets out to find the sunken ship. From National Geographic Documentary Films and directed by Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, and Natalie Hewit, ENDURANCE tells the inspiring stories of these two landmark expeditions, bound by their shared grit and determination.
After the film, we shall host a Q&A session with Executive Producer Anna Barnes ’01.
Anna is an Emmy-winning producer who runs all aspects of Little Monster Films (LMF), developing content and overseeing the production of films and series from inception to release. Having first worked with Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin on their 2015 hit MERU, she reteamed with them and National Geographic on the record-breaking theatrical release of the Oscar®-winning film FREE SOLO. She won an Emmy as part of the producing team on THE RESCUE and has produced or executive produced the series PHOTOGRAPHER and EDGE OF THE UNKNOWN WITH JIMMY CHIN and the films WILD LIFE, RETURN TO SPACE, 14 PEAKS, AND ENDURANCE. Prior to LMF, she worked on many of the top nonfiction films of the past decade, including a long roster of Oscar winners and nominees such as Ezra Edelman’s OJ: MADE IN AMERICA, Matthew Heineman’s CARTEL LAND, Bryan Fogel’s ICARUS, Yance Ford’s STRONG ISLAND, RaMell Ross’ HALE COUNTRY: THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING and Gianfranco Rosi’s FIRE AT SEA. As an executive at Cinetic Media, she oversaw the distribution campaigns for many successful documentaries, such as the Oscar-nominated Banksy documentary EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP and Asif Kapadia’s SENNA. Barnes started her career in Boston working with legendary filmmaker and Oscar-winner Frederick Wiseman.