1. Up North Screening Tour


    I’m really pleased to announce a Western Canada screening tour for Up North - A film documenting conversations on the impacts of change in Northern Canada. We made this film as a crew of 3, it was self funded, self directed. We lived in a van for a month, consumed a fair bit of Jamesons, met some amazing people and somehow made it home without too much hassle.


    I’m really looking forward to getting back in the van and taking this film on the road. So, if you live in any of the following places, please come out to check out our film.

    Join us for the Western Canada Screening Tour:

    Up North - Conversations on the Impacts of Change

    Winner - Best Art Documentary - Mountain Film Festival - 2010

    Admission by donation

    July 8- Vancouver, BC - Fletcher Challenge Theater Room 1900 SFU Harbour Centre Campus - Presented by SFU Political Science Student’s Association
    July 9 - Victoria BC - Camas Books 2590 Quadra Street
    July 11 - Golden BC - Bizarre Entertainment - 824 10th Ave S
    July 13 - Lethbridge, AB - Lethbridge Public Library - Theatre Gallery
    July 16 - Edmonton, AB - Latitude 53 - 10248 106 ST
    July 24 - Calgary, AB - Plaza Theater - 1133 Kensington Road NW

    Trailer: http://www.upnorthmovie.com/

    Synopsis:

    Our environment and culture have been linked to our evolution since the dawn of civilization. Currently that linkage appears to be having an increasingly evident impact on our ecology and environment with little change in global culture. This dissonance is exaggerated intensely in our most delicate environments. Northern Canada is one of these environs.

    In the summer of 2007, Drew McIntosh, Robert Lutener and Aaron Bocanegra set out on a journey across the north into the Arctic Circle, in exploration of the impact change has on the landscape and people’s lives.

    Their 8500 KM (5282 mile) adventure began in Edmonton, Alberta, four hours south of the largest proposed industrial project in history, the Athabasca Oilsands. Traveling through Alberta, British Columbia, Alaska, The Yukon, and the Northwest Territories they arrived in Inuvik, at the end of the 750 KM (466 Mile) gravel Dempster Highway, 200 KM (124 miles) north of the Arctic Circle.

    Through conversations with First Nations Chiefs, Elders, comedians, artists, dancers and mountaineers, Up North takes you on a journey of discovery and inquiry delving into a mulitilayered look at forms of change including economic, environmental, cultural, social, political, dromological and linguistic. Set against the stunning beauty of North America’s last wilderness, it accesses an alternate history of Canada’s north, told through the wisdom of experience and the reflection of our culture in the landscape.

    The project was and has continued to be entirely self-funded without any grant support or government support. We are not affiliated with any outside interest. The goal was to allow the landscape and the people to been seen and heard in their own voices. In addition to putting our money and time into the project we were helped a great deal by the donation of both the van and the trailer as well as camping supplies by friends and family. Without the support of those who believed in the project we would not have been able to accomplish as much as we did.

  1. Up North Screening Tour


    I’m really pleased to announce a Western Canada screening tour for Up North - A film documenting conversations on the impacts of change in Northern Canada. We made this film as a crew of 3, it was self funded, self directed. We lived in a van for a month, consumed a fair bit of Jamesons, met some amazing people and somehow made it home without too much hassle.


    I’m really looking forward to getting back in the van and taking this film on the road. So, if you live in any of the following places, please come out to check out our film.

    Join us for the Western Canada Screening Tour:

    Up North - Conversations on the Impacts of Change

    Winner - Best Art Documentary - Mountain Film Festival - 2010

    Admission by donation

    July 8- Vancouver, BC - Fletcher Challenge Theater Room 1900 SFU Harbour Centre Campus - Presented by SFU Political Science Student’s Association
    July 9 - Victoria BC - Camas Books 2590 Quadra Street
    July 11 - Golden BC - Bizarre Entertainment - 824 10th Ave S
    July 13 - Lethbridge, AB - Lethbridge Public Library - Theatre Gallery
    July 16 - Edmonton, AB - Latitude 53 - 10248 106 ST
    July 24 - Calgary, AB - Plaza Theater - 1133 Kensington Road NW

    Trailer: http://www.upnorthmovie.com/

    Synopsis:

    Our environment and culture have been linked to our evolution since the dawn of civilization. Currently that linkage appears to be having an increasingly evident impact on our ecology and environment with little change in global culture. This dissonance is exaggerated intensely in our most delicate environments. Northern Canada is one of these environs.

    In the summer of 2007, Drew McIntosh, Robert Lutener and Aaron Bocanegra set out on a journey across the north into the Arctic Circle, in exploration of the impact change has on the landscape and people’s lives.

    Their 8500 KM (5282 mile) adventure began in Edmonton, Alberta, four hours south of the largest proposed industrial project in history, the Athabasca Oilsands. Traveling through Alberta, British Columbia, Alaska, The Yukon, and the Northwest Territories they arrived in Inuvik, at the end of the 750 KM (466 Mile) gravel Dempster Highway, 200 KM (124 miles) north of the Arctic Circle.

    Through conversations with First Nations Chiefs, Elders, comedians, artists, dancers and mountaineers, Up North takes you on a journey of discovery and inquiry delving into a mulitilayered look at forms of change including economic, environmental, cultural, social, political, dromological and linguistic. Set against the stunning beauty of North America’s last wilderness, it accesses an alternate history of Canada’s north, told through the wisdom of experience and the reflection of our culture in the landscape.

    The project was and has continued to be entirely self-funded without any grant support or government support. We are not affiliated with any outside interest. The goal was to allow the landscape and the people to been seen and heard in their own voices. In addition to putting our money and time into the project we were helped a great deal by the donation of both the van and the trailer as well as camping supplies by friends and family. Without the support of those who believed in the project we would not have been able to accomplish as much as we did.