Finding and Filming Shackleton's Endurance

Name: Finding and Filming Shackleton's Endurance
Start: 2025-10-16T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-16T19:00:00+01:00
Location: The Wessex Building, King Edward's School

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Join us for the 2025 Wroughton Lecture as award-winning filmmaker and Old Edwardian, Natalie Hewit, transports us to the world’s most remote continent and behind the scenes of Endurance, the documentary that she filmed and directed about the epic search for the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea. Discover how the Endurance22 expedition successfully located “the impossible shipwreck” and how she planned and executed one of the most complex filming expeditions to be undertaken in the challenging conditions of Antarctica. Find out about the painstaking historical research that informed the film and the innovative techniques she used to thread the inspiring stories of Shackleton’s expedition over a century ago, together with that of the modern-day explorers setting out to find his sunken ship – both bound by their shared grit and determination.

Open to the KES community and friends of the School, with donations invited towards The Wroughton Bursary Fund.