Flight of the Butterflies
Synopsis
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.
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Edited by Susan ShiptonShot by Simon De GlanvilleScored by Leonardo HeiblumDesigned by Sandra Kybartas
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21 unique people credited
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Gordon Pinsent
as Dr. Fred Urquhart
Patricia Phillips
as Norah Urquhart
Shaun Benson
as Ken Brugger
Stephen Bogaert
as Fred Urquhart
Megan Follows
as Narrator
Manuel Jimenez Fraire
as Hunter #2
Jayden Greig
as Ice cream boy
Dylan Hoerner
as Young Fred Urquhart
Kevin Macdonald
as Male Volunteer
Gerardo Martinez
as Hunter #1
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