National Canadian Film Day: Kings of the North & Memory Trap

This screening took place on Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 7:00 pmYukon Theatre

See Yukon films as part of National Canadian Film Day 2023! Admission is 'pay what you can'

Kings of the North: the Search for the Last of the Ice Bears

Dir. Peter Zenkl, 2023, Yukon, 35 MIN

Photographers Peter Mather and Peter Zenkl, alongside music producer Matthew Lien very recently premiered the new documentary film Kings of the North, the Search for the Last of the Ice Bears.

The movie follows Mather, an award winning nature photographer and Yukoner, as he ventures into the bush to capture images of what he calls ice bears. He describes them as grizzlies with thick coats of ice covering their fur. As winter sets in, ice bears brave frigid temperatures while they delay hibernation to find one final feed of salmon before sleeping. According to Mather, dwindling salmon populations are making ice bears more and more elusive. FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE!

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MEMORY TRAP: The Herd that Wouldn’t Disappear

Dir. Allan Code, 2015, Yukon, 50 MIN

Whitehorse-filmmaker Allan Code’s fascinating documentary follows the Forty Mile Caribou Herd for a year through remote wilderness of North Yukon and Alaska, telling their story of survival and how traditional knowledge and science saved the herd from near extinction. Commissioned by the Yukon Film Society to celebrate its 30th Anniversary. From the Available Light on Demand collection.