The Push: Sou Pole Expedition

ANTON/BAUER BATTERIES POWER FILMING OF THE PUSH: A SOUTH POLE EXPEDITION DOCUMENTARY DIONIC HCs Stand Up to Below-Freezing Temperatures During Historic Trek By Adaptive Athlete Grant Korgan

SHELTON, CT, MAY 30, 2012 Faced with traveling through the extreme cold and snowy terrain of the South Pole, the production team behind the documentary The Push: South Pole Expedition, turned to Anton/Bauer , part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec Group company, and a premier global provider of batteries, chargers, lighting and other mobile power systems for the professional broadcast, video and film industries, to power the crew's video cameras during adaptive athlete Grant Korgan's two-week-long trek. Cinematographer Tom Day, of Warren Miller Entertainment, chose Anton/Bauer's DIONIC HC battery to keep the team's Sony HXR-NX5U professional camcorders and Canon EOS 7D Digital SLR camera running through the tough last leg of the trek.

The documentary, directed by Steve Sig, filmed by Day and Petter Nyquist and photographed by Keoki Flagg, follows adaptive athlete Grant Korgan, who suffered a paralyzing spinal cord injury in 2010, and his team, Doug Stoup, founder and expedition leader of Ice Axe Expeditions and Tal Fletcher, a guest guide for Points North Heli-Adventures. Throughout the documentary, the team works together to help Korgan reach his goal of trekking to the South Pole first by use of a sit-ski, which allows him to use his arm power to push him along, and finishing the expedition on skis, in a standing position. Thanks to help from Anton/Bauer's DIONIC HCs, Day and his production team were able to capture Korgan reaching his goal by his target date of January 12, 2012, the 100th anniversary of Robert Falcon Scotts Terra Nova expedition..

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