Durango Independent Film Festival 2009

The Brooks Range is one of the wildest places in North America and stands in many people’s eyes as the postcard image of wilderness. This film explores ideas of wilderness through the stunning landscapes of Gates of the Arctic National Park, and the people who have witnessed them throughout history. The film intertwines stories from Nunamiut Eskimo culture, a local subsistence hunter and trapper, and Bob Marshall and Mardy Murie, passionate conservationists who were inspired by these hills to start a national wilderness-protection movement. The film is a visually breathtaking portrait of a remote land, its people and its wildlife.