Reel Alternatives: The Art of Adventure

In 1957 and 1958, Robert Bateman and Bristol Foster drove a Land Rover 30,000 kilometres across Africa, India, Southeast Asia and Australia. Director Alison Reid's documentary uses their original 16mm footage and interviews with friends and family to show how the trip shaped Bateman's life as a wildlife painter and Foster's as a biologist and the first director of B.C.'s Ecological Reserves program. All proceeds support Cowichan Hospice.