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I didn’t expect that a documentary about two Canadian naturalists and adventurers in their 90s would be a such a feel-good film. But that’s what director Alison Reid (The Woman Who Loves Giraffes)has delivered with this uplifting, eye-opening and altogether charming portrait of Robert Bateman and Bristol Foster, childhood friends who in 1957 set off in a custom Land Rover that they whimsically named the “Grizzly Torque” after a “Pogo” comic.
The documentary follows artist Robert Bateman and biologist Bristol Foster’s decades-long friendship and environmental activism.
When award-winning filmmaker Allison Reid pitched the idea for a documentary about Robert Bateman, she was surprised to find how many people didn’t know the Canadian artist.
The focus of The Art of Adventure is its awe-inspiring central characters: Robert Bateman, the iconic artist and naturalist, and his travelmate on an 18-month journey across the globe in 1956, conservation biologist Bristol Foster.
Filmmaker Alison Reid is one of those directors who bounces from project to project on the small screen. Her CV includes episodes of Murdoch Mysteries, Beyond Black Beauty, Holly Hobbie, and more.
Around-the-world trip in Land Rover subject of “The Art of Adventure.”
Doc screening Friday shows global travels of Canadian painter Robert Bateman and biologist Bristol Foster
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