Flight of the Butterflies

45min

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.

Production Companies

Thillaye Productions

Footsteps Post-Production Sound

SK Films

Sin Sentido Films

Spence-Thomas Audio

Cast

Gordon Pinsent

Gordon Pinsent

Dr Fred Urquhart
Shaun Benson

Shaun Benson

Ken Brugger
Patricia Phillips

Patricia Phillips

Norah Urquhart
Stephanie Sigman

Stephanie Sigman

Catalina Aguado
Jayden Greig

Jayden Greig

Ice cream boy

Release date

1st Oct 2012

Status

Released

Spoken languages

English