The Whidbey Island Center for the Arts is bringing award-winning filmmaker Holly Morris to Whidbey Island for the screening of her new film, “Exposure.”

The screening, as well as a stage talk with Morris after the film, is set for 7 p.m. on June 16 and 2 p.m. on June 17. Standard tickets are $18 and WICA Star tickets are $28 and can be purchased by visiting wicaonline.org.

As the Arctic polar ice cap melts, reaching the North Pole has become increasingly dangerous. Yet an expedition of ordinary women from the Arab world and the West strap on skis and haul heaving sledges toward true north, against all odds and polar advice.

Award-winning filmmaker Morris captures it all, from frostbite and polar bear threats, to sexism and self-doubt in this intimate story of resilience, survival and global citizenry — on what may be the last-ever expedition to the top of the world.

“Exposure” is a gorgeous, adrenaline-laced documentary about strong women and the degrading climate. But the film also ignites in audiences and expeditioners alike a passion for what’s possible when we push past our fears and open ourselves to change. The film invites us to imagine a world of women, believing in themselves and taking the reins, working across boundaries of all kinds, and leading us into a future where we adapt, with compassion and equity, to the challenges ahead.

For two decades Morris has told, and championed, pro-woman, cross-cultural stories on the global stage. She is an internationally known filmmaker, author, and presenter.

Her last feature film, “The Babushkas of Chernobyl,” premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival, where it won the Jury Award for Directing, the first of nearly two dozen awards received before being broadcast world-wide. The film, based on her print journalism, is about a defiant community of women who live inside Ukraine’s radioactive “Exclusion Zone. ” The story is also the basis of her popular TED Talk.