A tremendous honor to announce that Walking with Shackleton, a film by Director Roberto Serrini, Editor at Large for Get Lost Travel Magazine, won the Gold 2024 Travel Weekly Magellan Award for best Cruise Marketing-Promotional Video.

“The film has really started a firestorm,” comments Director/Editor Roberto Serrini, who journey on Quark’s Ultramarine to Antarctica was the impetus for creating the film, “it has wowed a lot of festivals but winning a Gold Magellan award is a category all to itself”.

Serrini who previously did other work for Quark’s Arctic expeditions was delighted by the news that this, his latest travel film, had won such high accolades within the travel and tourism industry. Per Travel Weekly “the Travel Weekly Magellan Awards honors the best in travel and salutes the outstanding travel professionals behind it all.” making it the 10th premiere accolade Walking with Shackleton has won to date.

“I think the film is unique in how it approaches the travel experience,” mentions Justin Jamieson, Editor in Chief and owner of Get Lost Magazine, “it is not your common travel film, something that Roberto has been actively trying to master, and has obviously accomplished.”

The film which was shot entirely on-board Quark’s luxury Ultramarine exploratory vessel by Serrini as it crossed the Antarctic Circle, was juxtaposed against various quotes from Shackleton’s own diary as he made the same journey over 100 years before. The film is narrated by actor Chris Sullivan (This is Us/Guardians of the Galaxy) who’s gravitas tone and permeating timbre give the film it’s magical feeling.

“The idea came to me naturally as I was reading Shackleton’s diary in the sauna of the ship,” Serrini recalls with a laugh, “there I was sweating, looking at this beautiful landscape as Shackleton recounts how he could never get warm but the beauty of the terrain kept pushing him deeper into the cold. I thought to myself how marvelous this was, that here I was having the same result from the experience, but with none of the suffering, and isn’t that really what well done travel is about.”

Serrini has been a travel journalist with Get Lost Magazine for nearly two decades, and has filed dozens of high profile articles, and hundreds of short documentary films from locations around the globe. Antarctica was the last continent this intrepid traveler had yet to visit, so this film holds a very special place in his heart.

“Of course you can’t see it all,” Serrini says about the world in general, “but I’ve been fortunate enough to see more then most and to do so with such an amazing publication as Get Lost. To visit the last continent was a revelation for me, and a huge milestone, and to do it with the Quark team was really the height of perfection. I think all of this is what got poured into this little film that has a big heart, right down to getting Chris Sullivan who lent the greatest voice in the business to one of the greatest explorer’s ever to roam the Earth. It’s a beautiful thing when so many wonderful facets come into focus.”

Walking with Shackleton is still well into it’s film festival circuit, but can be seen online for free. Serrini has several new trips and films planned for the following year that he hopes will make a valiant effort at changing the landscape of the travel industry and how tourism effects destinations. Serrini is a robust activist in elevating the travel-sphere and solving the problems over-tourism causes worldwide.

“I mainly work in advertising, so I understand the power of marketing,” Serrini says, “so thinking of how we in the travel and tourism industry can better use this powerful medium to better serve the world is of great concern to me. I have seen travel change so much since I started backpacking when I was just 15. It’s a force to be reckoned with, and respected, and we owe it to future generations to make the world big again and full of wonder, not just full of “best of” listsicles and the same sad picture of a bowl of carbonara.”