One Simple Question is an independent film for everyone. At it’s core, this is a sailing adventure—a quest to find an uncharted iceberg. Along the way, the film explores the virtues of simple and sustainable living and the happiness found therein. It develops a real and tangible relationship with the abstract and controversial concepts of ice cap depletion and climate change. But most importantly, One Simple Question illustrates the beauty of life and our natural world from a unique perspective.
One Simple Question, a documentary film that will:
Entertain with a sailing adventure at its core. Two highly independent and accomplished solo sailors (and a cat!) join forces on one boat a race against the elements and race against the onset of summer.
Inspire enthusiasm for getting outside and connecting with the natural world by contrasting the artificial way of life that has become our norm with the true beauty of wilderness, weather, ocean, and history. It illustrates a simpler life and shares experiences of sustainable, simplicity masters met along the journey.
Educate people from a unique perspective by taking real but ofteninaccessible scientific data on climate change and ice cap depletion and sharing it in a personal and poignant way. This debate rages, and both sides of the controversy are examined.
Synopsis
In June 2011, Teresa and Ben will set sail on a journey of adventure and simplicity. Shedding the comforts of a familiar lifestyle, they board their small sailboat and venture north in search of an iceberg. The documentary film titled, One Simple Question, will follow them as they embark from a life cluttered with stress and belongings and sail toward an awakening of their hearts and minds. For the first time Ben and Teresa will travel together aboard one boat and attempt to transition from captains of their own vessels, to co-captains of one vessel. The film will chronicle their journey. It will be an experience that will captivate audiences and awaken their senses through the thrills and hardships of a life at sea.
Two parallel stories unfold.
The quest to see an iceberg is simple and pure, yet like the iceberg itself, there is much more beneath the surface. Like Thoreau’s journey to live deliberately, gain understanding, and discover happiness through simplicity, One Simple Question uses the iceberg as its 'cabin in the woods' to explore the virtues of simple living. Enlightening conversations with simple living authorities, along the way will shed insight into this purer way of life that is gaining in popularity. This quest is one that speaks to the hearts of many Americans today. Where is the happiness of the American Dream? Is it time to embrace a new dream?
As the approach of summer and increasing temperatures threaten their goal, they will eagerly take on the challenges of a voyage at sea in a race against time. Cramped in tight quarters the pair will endure sleepless nights, icy northern water, thick fog, and rough weather. With the polar icecaps and glaciers melting and both the Northwest and Northeast Passages now open to shipping, there is concern about the future population of icebergs. Will they succeed in having a glimpse of an uncharted iceberg before they are gone forever? One Simple Question introduces an analysis of environmental change, polar ice cap depletion, and the relationship between ice and the planet. Ben and Teresa will highlight their adventure with discussions among climatologists and oceanographers on both sides of this controversial issue.
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