An Alaskan film bears witness to the truth.
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“It’s really a film about home...”
Filmmaker Arthur C. Smith III
Gannett News, February 27, 2009
It’s not a barren wasteland.
It’s not uninhabited.
It’s not a frontier waiting to be discovered.
It’s home.
ICE BEARS OF THE BEAUFORT was filmed in one of the most remote and unforgiving places in Alaska. It’s the creation of two resident independent filmmakers committed to replacing the abstraction of the Arctic with reality. In the spirit of “bearing witness,” we made this film to share with people who may never see the Alaskan arctic for themselves. When political discussion turns to industrializing the Arctic, we want Americans to be able to visualize whose home is at stake.
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.
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