02/17/2025
📣 We are pleased to announce that the official world premiere of Return of the Great Bear will be at the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival on February 28th at the Cinematheque in Vancouver, Canada. 🎥 📅
🎟️ Get tickets at the link in bio (online screening tickets are also available), and we will see you there!
🐻 This film tells the story of the decades-long fight to ban grizzly bear trophy hunting in British Columbia. While a ban took effect in 2017, the future of grizzlies is still uncertain. Bans have been overturned in the past as the power in government shifted and in a time of shrinking salmon runs, climate change, industrial logging and pushback from hunting lobbyists now more than ever it is critical for people to come together again and fight for what is wild.
Uplifting the voices of First Nations leaders, biologists, bear guides, and conservationists, this film sheds light on the monumental, collective effort that goes into changing government policy. Viewers get an intimate look at the true nature of bears with breathtaking wildlife cinematography and honest stories from the people who have been changed by the privilege of getting to know bears first-hand.
Directed by: Natasha Wehn
Wildlife Cinematography by: Ian McAllister
Additional shooting by: Gamut Productions Carlo Alcos - Video Production , Leslie Birch, Trevor Wong and Yuki Itoh
Editing by: Darryl Whetung and Daniel Jeffery
Assistant Editing: Lars Isaac
Motion Graphics: Roan Bohonos and Ryan MacKeen
Colour: Andrea Dixon
Sound Design: QuestCoast Studios and David Pelvis
Special thanks to: Chief Councillor Douglas Neasloss, Wayne McCrory and of course to Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival (VIMFF)
