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Thursday, January 24th
6:00 - 7:00pm Cocktails with Filmmakers
7:00 - 9:00pm Opening Night Film
Filmmaker Q&A
In Nansen’s Footsteps (World Premiere)
Friday, January 25th
6:00 - 7:00pm Cocktails with Filmmakers
7:00 - 7:30pm Lamp Lighting Ceremony with Guest Speakers
Auju Peter, Inuit designer, culturalist and activist
Nauja Bianco, Senior Adviser to The Nordic Board
7:30 - 9:00pm Film Block I
Feel the Inukness (short)
Anaiyyuun: Prayer for the Whale (short)
Angry Inuk (feature)
Saturday, January 26th
9:00 - 9:30am Check-in
9:30am - 12:30pm Film Block II
White Wolves: Ghosts of the Arctic (feature)
A Shifting Continent (featurette)
The Traverse (featurette)
The Islands and the Whales (feature)
Q&A with Dr. Pal Weihe of the Faroe Islands
12:30 - 1:30pm Lunch (separate ticket required)
1:30 - 4:15pm Film Block III
Filmmaker Q&A
Rise (short)
Defending the Arctic Refuge (featurette)
Admiral Byrd and the Dogs of his Expeditions (short)
Pulling Teeth from a Polar Bear (featurette)
Ice Alive (featurette)
Under a Cracked Sky (short)
Past Ice / Future Ice (short)
Three Thousand (featurette)
Guilt Trip (featurette)
4:30 - 6:00pm Historical Presentation
"Explorers, Ethnographers, and Filmmakers during the Fifth Thule Expedition Across Arctic America, 1921-24"
with clips from the documentary Knud Rasmussen: The Great Enchanter (2017)
Speakers:
Lene Borch, Filmmaker with Nordisk Film, Denmark
Scott MacKenzie, Queen’s University, Canada
Anna Westerstahl Stenport, Georgia Institute of Technology
6:00 - 7:00pm Cocktails with Filmmakers
7:00 - 9:00pm Closing Night Film
with True North (short)
LOUNGE (Ongoing Screenings, Wednesday - Saturday)
A Fight For The Arctic (featurette)
Students on Ice, 2018 Expedition (featurette)
Silent Auction for Kanken Backpacks & Fjällräven Jackets
Young Explorer Films:
Shifting Baselines & the Collapse of the Cod Fishery in Newfoundland
Brynn O’Donnell
Disappearing Ice
Brianna Rowe
Recipes of Cultural Heritage: Capturing the Culinary Traditions of Scotland, the Faroe Islands, and Iceland
Grace Cordsen
Sea Change: Lessons from Coastal Community Builders on the North Atlantic
Jocelyn Harrington
Visions from The Arctic: Inuit Carver Billy Gauthier
Jonathan Desniak
The Ocean That Binds Us, A Multimedia Journey Through the North Atlantic
Deirdre Leowinata
Climate Change and The Dragons of Inaction
Sarah Freisen
Understanding The Presence of Marine Microplastics in Surface Waters
Jessica Sandoval
In Cod We Trust: Climate Change's Impact on Newfoundland's Fishing Culture
Jessica van Fleritan
...Join us for a presentation on Inuit Art on Tuesday, January 29th.
Festival Programmers:
Milbry Polk, Stefan Kindberg, Sarah Bouckoms
Festival Advisors: