Northwest Passage Film – Sprague Theobald, an Emmy-award winning filmmaker, returned to his Newport, Rhode Island home this week after completing an arduous fivemonth, 8,500mi filmmaking expedition through the Arctic in order to capture HD footage and stories for his next documentary. While footage that leaked through the filmmaker’s blog has been deemed “stunning” and “other worldly”, the biggest treasure Theobald found in the Arctic was his renewed family ties. Aboard his specially outfitted 57′ motorboat, Theobald brought with him a team of professional divers, sailors and filmmakers. He also hired three family members – son Sefton Theobald, stepdaughter Dominique Tanton, and stepson Chauncey Tanton. The four family members had not had the luxury of living together for many years and grew incredibly close amid the danger, desolation, and close quarters of the five-month voyage across the Arctic

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• Fieldnotes: “Northwest Passage: The Making of a Documentary” (Nov. 29, 2009).