An Alaskan film bears witness to the truth.
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A living legacy of evolution is
alive and well in arctic America.
For generations, Alaska's eastern Beaufort Sea has sustained the health of its hunters:
polar bears and Inupiat Eskimos.
Truly home only in the Arctic,
both are adapted to thrive in the harshest environment on the planet.
By conserving this Arctic Ocean habitat,
the timeless balance between land, sea, human, and animal may endure indefinitely.
1080 24p HD, 52 minutes © 2008 Arthur C. Smith III, PolarArt Productions
“As a result of our developing environmental crisis, nature filmmaking has become an avenue for proactive resistance to the status quo...”
Scott MacDonald, 2009
American film scholar
Above, a map showing Kaktovik, a 300-person community on Alaska’s Barter Island.
It was from this eastern Beaufort Sea home base that cinematographer
Arthur C. Smith III filmed Ice Bears of the Beaufort.