60min.

Between 1850 and 1930, North America drew almost 3 million people from Scandinavia. Qhat has since become of all those immigrants? This film explores the experience of immigration, the process of Americanization, the importance of landmark institutions such as churches and collesg, the power of family and community, the vitality of arts and craft, the matter of language, and the enjoyment of humor - it's a rich jouney, fueled by gallons of coffee.

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Brown Bear Secrets

36 minutes

Few animals are as intriguing as the Brown Bear. How can a creature this large sleep for six months and then wake up in the spring and emerge from the den just as strong and active as when they entered? We get a unique view inside the den of a wild brown bear as we try to unlock some of its secrets.

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My Dear Elsa

52 minutes

This is the story of a captivating, extraordinary woman living life to the fullest. After spending 31 years locked in a mental institution Elsa knows how to savor each day, finding joy in simple pleasures.

Narration: English
Subtitles: English

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A Guide to Brown Bear Country
with Dr. Larry Van Daele

22 + 27 minutes

“Many people feel that bears are unpredictable. Well, I think that bears feel the same way about us, that we’re unpredictable.” 

Dr. Larry Van Daele, wildlife biologist with Alaska Fish and Game, has been studying Brown Bears for over 25 years. In this film series he shares with us his expertise and experience of living with and around Brown Bears.

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Deadly Passion
The Tragedy in Katmai

34 minutes

The Timothy Treadwell Tragedy is a documentary film by Alaskan filmmakers Stefan Quinth and David Kaplan centering on the fatal bear mauling of bear activist Timothy Treadwell and his companion that occurred in October 2003 in Katmai National Park, Alaska. The incident has attracted unprecedented media attention, including news and magazine features, books, and film productions. The details of the story are a source of ongoing controversy, and spans issues of bear-human relations that are far greater than the incident itself. DEADLY PASSION is a film that examines this tragic event within this context.

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Man and Bear

52 minutes

Our relationship with the brown bear is an ambiguous one. Ranchers hate them, hunters covet them, they fascinate researchers, and some grassroots activists have mistakenly considered them to be living teddy bears, gentle and harmless. Legends, movies and television have depicted the bear as everything from a cuddly toy to a raging monster. How dangerous are they? Is it possible for humans and bears to co-exist in the same area? If so, what can be done to cut down on the potential conflict that arises when humans invade bear country? Today we know more about bears and their behavior. We know that the bear is not our brother, neither is it our enemy. But will we use our newfound knowledge to save this magnificent animal? 

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Kodiak - The Island of the Great Bear

A nature documentary by Stefan Quinth. Length 50 min.

This unique wildlife documentary brings you to one of the most remote places on earth to meet the Kodiak Bear, (Ursus Arctos Middendorffi),the world's largest land predator. Alaska's Kodiak islands, located in the North Pacific Ocean, are home to this noble creature. High mountains and valleys of thick brush have protected Kodiak's wildlife for centuries, and the isolated location has kept the progress of civilization at a distance. This magnificent nature documentary takes you to the heart of the bear country, to the breathtaking beauty of the Kodiak Islands.

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Aleutian
Steaming to Disaster
Length 28 min.

In a remote fjord off the coast of Kodiak Island, Alaska, the palatial steamship  ”Aleutian” met her fate when she collided with a hidden pinnacle rock in the early morning hours of Sunday, May 26th 1929. Seventy-three years after the accident, a small group of scuba divers launched a self-funded expedition to locate the lost passenger liner. All earlier attempts to find the sunken ship in the deep waters of the fjord had failed.

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Kodiak Salmon Summer

Staring The Francisco Family, 25 minutes

Every Summer for the past 25 years the Francisco family has left their home in Kodiak, Alaska and flown out to their fish camp at Uyak bay to spend four months gillnetting for salmon. The Salmon Industry is the major industry on Kodiak Island and the Francisco’s fish for one of the local canneries. They share with us, in their own words, what life is like in this remote area of the world, separated from friends, school, stores and doctors. Living in unity with nature and contending with wildlife such as the great Kodiak bear. Long, hard days of fishing are followed by cozy evenings in the cabin fellowshipping with family. Join Leon and Judy, their children and grandchildren in what Leon calls “the real world”.

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The Quest for Kodiaks Forest Giants

20 Minutes

“The only purpose to tag an animal is if you can get something out of it that will give you information to help the animal or to help the entire population.” 
- Larry Van Daele, Wildlife Biologist

We follow the research team on an exciting adventure to catch and tag Kodiak’s giant bear and the beautiful elk. Information from this unique project will give researchers further knowledge of our relationship with these beautiful animals.

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The Colorado River
Stolen Treasure

52 minutes

From its source high in the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado river twists and turns, passing through five states and Mexico, before spilling into the Pacific Ocean.  A spectacular labyrinth of gorges and canyons have been cut into the landscape by the river and it’s tributaries. The longest and most magnificent of these is, of course, the Grand Canyon. On Friday, August 13, 1869, John Wesley Powell, preparing for his entrance into the canyon, wrote in his diary, “And what a world of grandeur is spread before us!  Below is the canyon through which the Colorado runs.  We are ready to start our way down the great unknown..” Today we know what lies behind every turn, but the journey down the river is still awesomely thrilling.

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The Falun - Röros Expedition
A Historic Journey with Horse and Sled

49 minutes

For over a thousand years they trudged through the winter landscape, steam rising off the horses broad backs, fur clad men urging them on as they pulled the heavily loaded sleds along the winter trail. Like today's truck drivers hauling goods across the country, these trail drivers transported goods from Dalarna in Sweden, via the mountain market town, Röros, to the ice free port of Trondheim, Norway and back again. There were no roads, no railways, but the one-horse drawn sleds that glided through the snowy woods and across the frozen lakes could carry the valuable but heavy loads of iron and iron goods to Trondheim and from there out into the world.
On February 2, 2003, 30 men and women, from the Dalarna Femund Forkörarförening (The Trail Drivers Club) left the city of Falun in Sweden, with 17 horses pulling old-style sleds, and drove out into the forest. Eighteen cold, foggy days later a group of tired but happy trail drivers arrived at the historic market in Röros, Norway, welcomed by thousands of happy market goers.
Join us on the ancient trail and experience the beauty of the Scandinavian countryside, the camaraderie and laughter along the way, and the music of the Dalarna Femund Trail Driver Players.

Narration: English
Subtitles: English

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My Grandfather was a Tribal Chief
Triumphant Love

45 minutes

Love is a powerful tool, not just in creating contacts across boundaries but also for breaking through the shackles of oppression and racism. For PK, love has changed his life. Born as an untouchable in India, his life was transformed when he met his wife, Lotta, from Sweden. Today he teaches middle school art and is the cultural ambassador of Orissa in Sweden. Returning to India he is given a hero’s welcome by all from the Brahmin priest to the casteless beggar. His passion for people of all cultures shows in the compassion he shows the prostitutes of Orissa, his project to dig wells that can be used by all regardless of caste, and in the way he interacts with his students in Sweden.

Narration: English
Subtitles: English

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The Snake People

A documentary by Stefan Quinth. Length 29 min.

Join us as we visit a unique and exciting jungle people on the island of Sri Lanka! That the cobra is one of the deadliest snakes in the world and kills thousands of people every year are not things the Ahukuntakayos people worry about . Here, these snakes are part of the family, part of life. This people's culture and survival are rooted almost wholly in catching and keeping snakes. They earn money as snake charmers in the tourist areas. Indeed, there was a time when Ahukuntakayos people would be called upon to clear gardens and rice paddies of poisonous snakes. But a future as a snake charmer is no longer a certainty for a child in this village. With schooling, the next generation may be able to get more secure employment. But they thereby risk losing their forefathers' skills - and a centuries-old culture.

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A documentary by Stefan Quinth, Length 40 min.

The elephant has long been a symbol of wisdom and strength and has been both admired and feared by people everywhere. But even though the Asian elephant has often been worshipped as a god, today, it is facing extinction. This is a film about the difficult situation for the elephant on the island of Sri Lanka.  As an effect of the civil war the animals protected forests are being destroyed by soldiers, tanks and mines.  The elephants are forced to leave the national parks for an uncertain future, in continuous conflict with the local people.  The film shows efforts made by the Sri Lankan government to save the Ceylon Elephant.

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Length 25 minutes

Before dinosaurs walked the earth, long before mammals, birds and lizards were ever created, the sea turtle, with its thick protective shell, roamed the seas. Many life forms have appeared and disappeared throughout our planet’s long existence, but the sea turtle has survived them all. Until now. During the last 50 years all species of sea turtles have significantly diminished in number. Our extensive development and exploitation of the beaches and oceans have pushed the giant turtles to the verge of extinction.

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In 1976 Prof. Claes Andrén, researcher and filmmaker, travelled to Iran together with fellow researcher, Prof. Göran Nilson. While producing four films for the Swedish Television they were also able to do some exciting research. One of the reptiles they were able to study was the recently identified Latifis Viper that is unique to the Lar Valley in the Alborz Mountains. Dam construction in the area threatened the viper´s existence. War and political instability have made it impossible to search for the viper to see if it survived. Supported by the National Geopgraphic Society they undertook two new expeditions, the first in the year 2000 and the second in 2002. After a difficult search they succeeded in locating the Latifis Viper that has managed to survive in the Lar Valley.

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A film by Claes Andrén and Ulf Jonasson
A Nature / Vildmarksforum / SVT production 2005

In 2003-2004 Prof. Claes Andrén, scientist and filmmaker, and Ulf Jonasson, filmmaker and wildlife expert, set out on an expedition deep into the largely unexplored mountain rain forest of Vietnam to study and film snakes, lizard s and frogs. Renowned expert of Asian amphibians and reptiles, Dr. Nikolai Orlov from Russia, and Vietnamese researcher, Dr. Ho Thu Cuc, were also part of the team. The expedition took place during the monsoon season when amphibians and reptiles are most active. In spite of all the difficulties the expedition was very successful. An intriguing variety of spectacular plants and animals filmed in their extreme habitats, some of them revealed to the world for the first time, implore us to save the last remaining fragments of the world´s rain forests.

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A film by Claes Andrén and Ulf Jonasson
A Nature / Vildmarksforum / SVT production 2008

Three million years ago the land bridge linking Gibraltar to Northern Africa collapsed. An enormous tidal wave rushed in and created what is now the Mediterranean Sea. On the island of Milos a large viper has survived. Researchers Claes Andrén and Göran Nilson were commissioned by the Bern Convention to study the Milos Viper. The viper has managed to survive on a food source that becomes available on Milos for a short time during the spring and the fall. Another predator, the Eleonora Falcon, prey on the same food source to raise its young. Claes Andrén, researcher and wildlife cinematographer, and Ulf Jonasson, wildlife cinematographer and wilderness expert, have spent three years studying and filming these two predators and their amazing survival techniques.

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A one hour program blending the humor of Chad Carpenter with the beauty of the Alaskan wilderness.

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