E004 Grant Baldwin

This Amazing Story

English - May 11, 2020 11:05 - 1 hour - 60 MB
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This week’s guest is British Columbian documentary making phenom Grant Baldwin.

Grant is fun loving, curious, and constantly improving himself. His immaculately crafted shots have wowed audiences and won awards since 2010. Most recently he has been working with BBC Earth and an unnamed streaming platform as a camera operator. But you have probably seen some of his own very popular documentaries.

In the 2010 film, The Clean Bin Project, Grant and his wife Jen strive to produce zero waste – that’s no garbage at all – for a whole year, and they film the process, including arguments and hard bits. The film launched them into the world of conferences and school appearances, and has been screened all over the world.

Four years later, the couple was back with Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story, in which they survive by eating only garbage, for 6 months! They not only survived, but thrived with literally tons more food than they knew what to do with available within a short drive from their home.

And the 2018 documentary, This Mountain Life follows a 60 yr old mother and her daughter as they become only the second team ever to complete the entire Coast Mountain Traverse from Squamish, B.C. to Skagway Alaska, interspersed with some really cool stories of other folks who live or work in the rugged mountains of B.C.

In this episode, we talk about all this and much more… how Grant got his start in film, His current projects, that time that he filmed polar bears in Northern Manitoba… I could go on, but let’s just check it out! Come with me and have a listen to This Amazing Story.

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LINKS to stuff we talk about in the episode:

Peg Leg Films
https://www.peglegfilms.com/

The Clean Bin Project
http://www.cleanbinmovie.com/

Clean Bin On Knowledge Network
https://www.knowledge.ca/program/clean-bin-project

Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story
https://www.foodwastemovie.com/

Just Eat It on Knowledge
https://www.knowledge.ca/program/just-eat-it

This Mountain Life
https://mountainlifefilm.com/

This Mountain Life on Knowledge
https://www.knowledge.ca/program/mountain-life#air-dates

BBC Earth – Seven Worlds, One Planet
https://bbcearth.ca/shows/seven-worlds-one-plane/

North Shore Rescue Society
https://www.northshorerescue.com/

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