In Search of the Edge

{{short description|1990 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2024}} {{Infobox film | name = In Search of the Edge | image = | caption = | director = [[Scott Barrie (filmmaker)|Scott Barrie]] | producer = Scott Barrie | writer = | narrator = Robert Marsh | music = | cinematography = | editing = | studio = Pancake Productions | distributor = Bullfrog Films | released = {{film date|1990}} | runtime = 26 minutes | country = Canada | language = English }}

'''''In Search of the Edge''''' is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by [[Scott Barrie (filmmaker)|Scott Barrie]] and released in 1990.<ref name=aguilar>Sergio J. Aguilar Alcalá, "I Believe to Know: Scientific (Fake) Documentary and the Impasses of Scientific Knowledge". ''The Polish Journal of Aesthetics'', Vol. 63 No. 4 (2021). pp. 141–156. {{doi|10.19205/63.21.8}}.</ref> Conceived in part as an educational film on [[media literacy]] and [[critical thinking]] skills, the film is a [[mockumentary]] that aims to debunk [[Modern flat Earth beliefs|flat earth]] theory by presenting it as if it were true, thus exposing its contradictions and absurdities.<ref name=aguilar/> It is based in part on the story of Andrea Barnes, a fictional scientist who purportedly disappeared in [[Antarctica]] while searching for the edge of the earth, and is claimed by the film's participants to have fallen off the edge.<ref name=aguilar/>

The film received a [[Genie Award]] nomination for [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary|Best Short Documentary]] at the [[12th Genie Awards]] in 1991.<ref>"Genie candidates announced". ''[[Edmonton Journal]]'', October 10, 1991.</ref>

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