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Polaris

In the New Ice Age you can try to survive, or you can follow your dream and reach for the sun.

synopsis

Polaris is the name given to the Earth north of the Equator, since the New Ice Age began. In 2020 a chilling wind starts blowing on our planet. The ecosystem changes, communications break down, governments collapse, people revolt. Cold, hunger, sickness and chaos decimate Europe’s population. Scattered groups of individuals start building new and very different communities... this is where our story begins.

Director’statement

Polaris is a twenty-year long adventure in a near future where people have to survive against the cold and the iced wind and against the different communities of survivors. In a sort of new Middle Age the characters hunt, fight, seeking refuge and travelling in search of the hottest places on where to build a new civilization. Characters and stories unfold in different media and present each their unique insight into Polaris: a book/graphic novel trilogy. Young Tony travels across Europe to find her boyfriend; Lang, an engineer hired for a secret mission to build an icebreaker ark; Amos, an “apocalypse prepper”, saves four baby orphans. A movie trilogy: Children of the Ice (I Figli del Freddo) is a voyage from the Alps to the sea across Venice’s frozen lagoon, undertaken by the four orphans who decide – after 15 years – to leave Amos in search for the Sun; a second movie wherein the kids sail the Nile up to Victoria, a legendary town on the Equator; the third movie, about the kids in Victoria where European, Middle Eastern and African people fight against each other for a place in the sun. The Polaris gaming project: The Ark Mystery (set in the ark’s shipyard); The Nile (an endless running game); Polaris Experience (an on-line RPG). The Polaris web project: web series, social games, web radio, pod-cast.

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