Bears: Ultimate Survivors + Otter Eye

This screening took place on Monday, February 4, 2019 at 12:00 pmYukon Arts Centre

Bears: Ultimate Survivors Dir. Kelsey Eliasson, 2019, Yukon, 48 min This natural history documentary looks at North America's three species of bears and their ability to adapt to a changing world. Filmed by Yukoner Kelsey Eliasson across different parts of Canada. World premiere. Director Kelsey Eliasson in attendance. Screens with: Otter Eye Dir. Allan Code, 2018, Yukon, 22 min Otters are like little ghosts traveling above and beneath the ice between spots at lake outlets where upwelling warm water keeps ice from forming. Too wary to film even from blinds, long lenses and camera traps are used to capture an unobtrusive, intimate look at the world of otters. Their secret world is told through interviews with elder Art Johns, biologists Rene Rivard and Don Reid and the late elder, Ted Hall and through extraordinary camera trap footage courtesy Kim Melton and Rene Rivard who set them with precision and intuition informed by years of observation and study. The documentary visits early winter whitefish runs to reveal never-before-recorded behaviour of wolf packs fishing like bears! World premiere. Director Allan Code in attendance.