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  • Shaktoolik Documentary by Mera Kenney
    Silageetuq: a documentary film
    (Shaktoolik):

    This documentary film by Mera Kenney captures the perilous situation in Shaktoolik, a native village on the northwest coast of Alaska.  The village is threatened by the increasingly severe fall storms associated with a warmer Arctic. Silageetuq highlights the village's need for an evacuation road, a road to "somewhere" safe.

  • Savoonga Documentary by Jonathan Ignatowski
    Aksik: a documentary film
    (Savoonga):

    A new film by Jonathan Ignatowski on the impacts of climate change on Savoonga, Alaska has just been released.  The film, entitled Aksik, explores the importance of subsistence food to the village and the difficulties climate change is causing to maintain that culture.