Up North
A feature length documentary (1hr 57 min) exploring the experience of change in the north
Visit Project Post
Up North is a completely independent feature length documentary that won the Best Art Documentary award at the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival in 2010. The piece was shot by Drew McIntosh, Aaron Bocanegra an Rob Lutener. Aaron edited the piece.
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 social, cultural, economic, an environmental (amongst others) 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 Oil sands. 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.
A journey of this magnitude tends to change a person, and we all felt different and better for it.
Producers
Drew McIntosh
Aaron Bocanegra
Robert Lutener
Director
Drew McIntosh
Writer
Aaron Bocanegra
Editor
Aaron Bocanegra
Sound
Robert Lutener
Motion Graphics
Aaron Bocanegra
Dion Courson
Graphic Designer
Justin LaFontaine
Score
James Stewart
Subtitles
Amy McKenzie
Up North
A feature length documentary (1hr 57 min) exploring the experience of change in the north
Visit Project Post
Up North is a completely independent feature length documentary that won the Best Art Documentary award at the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival in 2010. The piece was shot by Drew McIntosh, Aaron Bocanegra an Rob Lutener. Aaron edited the piece.
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 social, cultural, economic, an environmental (amongst others) 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 Oil sands. 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.
A journey of this magnitude tends to change a person, and we all felt different and better for it.
Producers
Drew McIntosh
Aaron Bocanegra
Robert Lutener
Director
Drew McIntosh
Writer
Aaron Bocanegra
Editor
Aaron Bocanegra
Sound
Robert Lutener
Motion Graphics
Aaron Bocanegra
Dion Courson
Graphic Designer
Justin LaFontaine
Score
James Stewart
Subtitles
Amy McKenzie
Up North
A feature length documentary (1hr 57 min) exploring the experience of change in the north
Visit Project Post
Up North is a completely independent feature length documentary that won the Best Art Documentary award at the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival in 2010. The piece was shot by Drew McIntosh, Aaron Bocanegra an Rob Lutener. Aaron edited the piece.
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 social, cultural, economic, an environmental (amongst others) 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 Oil sands. 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.
A journey of this magnitude tends to change a person, and we all felt different and better for it.
Producers
Drew McIntosh
Aaron Bocanegra
Robert Lutener
Director
Drew McIntosh
Writer
Aaron Bocanegra
Editor
Aaron Bocanegra
Sound
Robert Lutener
Motion Graphics
Aaron Bocanegra
Dion Courson
Graphic Designer
Justin LaFontaine
Score
James Stewart
Subtitles
Amy McKenzie
Up North
A feature length documentary (1hr 57 min) exploring the experience of change in the north
Visit Project Post
Up North is a completely independent feature length documentary that won the Best Art Documentary award at the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival in 2010. The piece was shot by Drew McIntosh, Aaron Bocanegra an Rob Lutener. Aaron edited the piece.
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 social, cultural, economic, an environmental (amongst others) 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 Oil sands. 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.
A journey of this magnitude tends to change a person, and we all felt different and better for it.
Producers
Drew McIntosh
Aaron Bocanegra
Robert Lutener
Director
Drew McIntosh
Writer
Aaron Bocanegra
Editor
Aaron Bocanegra
Sound
Robert Lutener
Motion Graphics
Aaron Bocanegra
Dion Courson
Graphic Designer
Justin LaFontaine
Score
James Stewart
Subtitles
Amy McKenzie
Up North
A feature length documentary (1hr 57 min) exploring the experience of change in the north
Visit Project Post
Up North is a completely independent feature length documentary that won the Best Art Documentary award at the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival in 2010. The piece was shot by Drew McIntosh, Aaron Bocanegra an Rob Lutener. Aaron edited the piece.
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 social, cultural, economic, an environmental (amongst others) 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 Oil sands. 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.
A journey of this magnitude tends to change a person, and we all felt different and better for it.
Producers
Drew McIntosh
Aaron Bocanegra
Robert Lutener
Director
Drew McIntosh
Writer
Aaron Bocanegra
Editor
Aaron Bocanegra
Sound
Robert Lutener
Motion Graphics
Aaron Bocanegra
Dion Courson
Graphic Designer
Justin LaFontaine
Score
James Stewart
Subtitles
Amy McKenzie
Up North
A feature length documentary (1hr 57 min) exploring the experience of change in the north
Visit Project Post
Up North is a completely independent feature length documentary that won the Best Art Documentary award at the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival in 2010. The piece was shot by Drew McIntosh, Aaron Bocanegra an Rob Lutener. Aaron edited the piece.
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 social, cultural, economic, an environmental (amongst others) 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 Oil sands. 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.
A journey of this magnitude tends to change a person, and we all felt different and better for it.
Producers
Drew McIntosh
Aaron Bocanegra
Robert Lutener
Director
Drew McIntosh
Writer
Aaron Bocanegra
Editor
Aaron Bocanegra
Sound
Robert Lutener
Motion Graphics
Aaron Bocanegra
Dion Courson
Graphic Designer
Justin LaFontaine
Score
James Stewart
Subtitles
Amy McKenzie
Up North
A feature length documentary (1hr 57 min) exploring the experience of change in the north
Visit Project Post
Up North is a completely independent feature length documentary that won the Best Art Documentary award at the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival in 2010. The piece was shot by Drew McIntosh, Aaron Bocanegra an Rob Lutener. Aaron edited the piece.
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 social, cultural, economic, an environmental (amongst others) 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 Oil sands. 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.
A journey of this magnitude tends to change a person, and we all felt different and better for it.
Producers
Drew McIntosh
Aaron Bocanegra
Robert Lutener
Director
Drew McIntosh
Writer
Aaron Bocanegra
Editor
Aaron Bocanegra
Sound
Robert Lutener
Motion Graphics
Aaron Bocanegra
Dion Courson
Graphic Designer
Justin LaFontaine
Score
James Stewart
Subtitles
Amy McKenzie
Up North
A feature length documentary (1hr 57 min) exploring the experience of change in the north
Visit Project Post
Up North is a completely independent feature length documentary that won the Best Art Documentary award at the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival in 2010. The piece was shot by Drew McIntosh, Aaron Bocanegra an Rob Lutener. Aaron edited the piece.
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 social, cultural, economic, an environmental (amongst others) 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 Oil sands. 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.
A journey of this magnitude tends to change a person, and we all felt different and better for it.
Producers
Drew McIntosh
Aaron Bocanegra
Robert Lutener
Director
Drew McIntosh
Writer
Aaron Bocanegra
Editor
Aaron Bocanegra
Sound
Robert Lutener
Motion Graphics
Aaron Bocanegra
Dion Courson
Graphic Designer
Justin LaFontaine
Score
James Stewart
Subtitles
Amy McKenzie
Up North
A feature length documentary (1hr 57 min) exploring the experience of change in the north
Visit Project Post
Up North is a completely independent feature length documentary that won the Best Art Documentary award at the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival in 2010. The piece was shot by Drew McIntosh, Aaron Bocanegra an Rob Lutener. Aaron edited the piece.
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 social, cultural, economic, an environmental (amongst others) 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 Oil sands. 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.
A journey of this magnitude tends to change a person, and we all felt different and better for it.
Producers
Drew McIntosh
Aaron Bocanegra
Robert Lutener
Director
Drew McIntosh
Writer
Aaron Bocanegra
Editor
Aaron Bocanegra
Sound
Robert Lutener
Motion Graphics
Aaron Bocanegra
Dion Courson
Graphic Designer
Justin LaFontaine
Score
James Stewart
Subtitles
Amy McKenzie
Up North
A feature length documentary (1hr 57 min) exploring the experience of change in the north
Visit Project Post
Up North is a completely independent feature length documentary that won the Best Art Documentary award at the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival in 2010. The piece was shot by Drew McIntosh, Aaron Bocanegra an Rob Lutener. Aaron edited the piece.
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 social, cultural, economic, an environmental (amongst others) 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 Oil sands. 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.
A journey of this magnitude tends to change a person, and we all felt different and better for it.
Producers
Drew McIntosh
Aaron Bocanegra
Robert Lutener
Director
Drew McIntosh
Writer
Aaron Bocanegra
Editor
Aaron Bocanegra
Sound
Robert Lutener
Motion Graphics
Aaron Bocanegra
Dion Courson
Graphic Designer
Justin LaFontaine
Score
James Stewart
Subtitles
Amy McKenzie
Up North
A feature length documentary (1hr 57 min) exploring the experience of change in the north
Visit Project Post
Up North is a completely independent feature length documentary that won the Best Art Documentary award at the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival in 2010. The piece was shot by Drew McIntosh, Aaron Bocanegra an Rob Lutener. Aaron edited the piece.
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 social, cultural, economic, an environmental (amongst others) 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 Oil sands. 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.
A journey of this magnitude tends to change a person, and we all felt different and better for it.
Producers
Drew McIntosh
Aaron Bocanegra
Robert Lutener
Director
Drew McIntosh
Writer
Aaron Bocanegra
Editor
Aaron Bocanegra
Sound
Robert Lutener
Motion Graphics
Aaron Bocanegra
Dion Courson
Graphic Designer
Justin LaFontaine
Score
James Stewart
Subtitles
Amy McKenzie
Up North
A feature length documentary (1hr 57 min) exploring the experience of change in the north
Visit Project Post
Up North is a completely independent feature length documentary that won the Best Art Documentary award at the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival in 2010. The piece was shot by Drew McIntosh, Aaron Bocanegra an Rob Lutener. Aaron edited the piece.
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 social, cultural, economic, an environmental (amongst others) 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 Oil sands. 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.
A journey of this magnitude tends to change a person, and we all felt different and better for it.
Producers
Drew McIntosh
Aaron Bocanegra
Robert Lutener
Director
Drew McIntosh
Writer
Aaron Bocanegra
Editor
Aaron Bocanegra
Sound
Robert Lutener
Motion Graphics
Aaron Bocanegra
Dion Courson
Graphic Designer
Justin LaFontaine
Score
James Stewart
Subtitles
Amy McKenzie
Up North
A feature length documentary (1hr 57 min) exploring the experience of change in the north
Visit Project Post
Up North is a completely independent feature length documentary that won the Best Art Documentary award at the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival in 2010. The piece was shot by Drew McIntosh, Aaron Bocanegra an Rob Lutener. Aaron edited the piece.
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 social, cultural, economic, an environmental (amongst others) 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 Oil sands. 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.
A journey of this magnitude tends to change a person, and we all felt different and better for it.
Producers
Drew McIntosh
Aaron Bocanegra
Robert Lutener
Director
Drew McIntosh
Writer
Aaron Bocanegra
Editor
Aaron Bocanegra
Sound
Robert Lutener
Motion Graphics
Aaron Bocanegra
Dion Courson
Graphic Designer
Justin LaFontaine
Score
James Stewart
Subtitles
Amy McKenzie
Up North
A feature length documentary (1hr 57 min) exploring the experience of change in the north
Visit Project Post
Up North is a completely independent feature length documentary that won the Best Art Documentary award at the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival in 2010. The piece was shot by Drew McIntosh, Aaron Bocanegra an Rob Lutener. Aaron edited the piece.
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 social, cultural, economic, an environmental (amongst others) 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 Oil sands. 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.
A journey of this magnitude tends to change a person, and we all felt different and better for it.
Producers
Drew McIntosh
Aaron Bocanegra
Robert Lutener
Director
Drew McIntosh
Writer
Aaron Bocanegra
Editor
Aaron Bocanegra
Sound
Robert Lutener
Motion Graphics
Aaron Bocanegra
Dion Courson
Graphic Designer
Justin LaFontaine
Score
James Stewart
Subtitles
Amy McKenzie
Up North
A feature length documentary (1hr 57 min) exploring the experience of change in the north
Visit Project Post
Up North is a completely independent feature length documentary that won the Best Art Documentary award at the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival in 2010. The piece was shot by Drew McIntosh, Aaron Bocanegra an Rob Lutener. Aaron edited the piece.
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 social, cultural, economic, an environmental (amongst others) 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 Oil sands. 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.
A journey of this magnitude tends to change a person, and we all felt different and better for it.
Producers
Drew McIntosh
Aaron Bocanegra
Robert Lutener
Director
Drew McIntosh
Writer
Aaron Bocanegra
Editor
Aaron Bocanegra
Sound
Robert Lutener
Motion Graphics
Aaron Bocanegra
Dion Courson
Graphic Designer
Justin LaFontaine
Score
James Stewart
Subtitles
Amy McKenzie
Up North
A feature length documentary (1hr 57 min) exploring the experience of change in the north
Visit Project Post
Up North is a completely independent feature length documentary that won the Best Art Documentary award at the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival in 2010. The piece was shot by Drew McIntosh, Aaron Bocanegra an Rob Lutener. Aaron edited the piece.
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 social, cultural, economic, an environmental (amongst others) 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 Oil sands. 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.
A journey of this magnitude tends to change a person, and we all felt different and better for it.
Producers
Drew McIntosh
Aaron Bocanegra
Robert Lutener
Director
Drew McIntosh
Writer
Aaron Bocanegra
Editor
Aaron Bocanegra
Sound
Robert Lutener
Motion Graphics
Aaron Bocanegra
Dion Courson
Graphic Designer
Justin LaFontaine
Score
James Stewart
Subtitles
Amy McKenzie
Up North
A feature length documentary (1hr 57 min) exploring the experience of change in the north
Visit Project Post
Up North is a completely independent feature length documentary that won the Best Art Documentary award at the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival in 2010. The piece was shot by Drew McIntosh, Aaron Bocanegra an Rob Lutener. Aaron edited the piece.
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 social, cultural, economic, an environmental (amongst others) 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 Oil sands. 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.
A journey of this magnitude tends to change a person, and we all felt different and better for it.
Producers
Drew McIntosh
Aaron Bocanegra
Robert Lutener
Director
Drew McIntosh
Writer
Aaron Bocanegra
Editor
Aaron Bocanegra
Sound
Robert Lutener
Motion Graphics
Aaron Bocanegra
Dion Courson
Graphic Designer
Justin LaFontaine
Score
James Stewart
Subtitles
Amy McKenzie
Up North
A feature length documentary (1hr 57 min) exploring the experience of change in the north
Visit Project Post
Up North is a completely independent feature length documentary that won the Best Art Documentary award at the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival in 2010. The piece was shot by Drew McIntosh, Aaron Bocanegra an Rob Lutener. Aaron edited the piece.
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 social, cultural, economic, an environmental (amongst others) 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 Oil sands. 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.
A journey of this magnitude tends to change a person, and we all felt different and better for it.
Producers
Drew McIntosh
Aaron Bocanegra
Robert Lutener
Director
Drew McIntosh
Writer
Aaron Bocanegra
Editor
Aaron Bocanegra
Sound
Robert Lutener
Motion Graphics
Aaron Bocanegra
Dion Courson
Graphic Designer
Justin LaFontaine
Score
James Stewart
Subtitles
Amy McKenzie
Up North
A feature length documentary (1hr 57 min) exploring the experience of change in the north
Visit Project Post
Up North is a completely independent feature length documentary that won the Best Art Documentary award at the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival in 2010. The piece was shot by Drew McIntosh, Aaron Bocanegra an Rob Lutener. Aaron edited the piece.
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 social, cultural, economic, an environmental (amongst others) 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 Oil sands. 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.
A journey of this magnitude tends to change a person, and we all felt different and better for it.
Producers
Drew McIntosh
Aaron Bocanegra
Robert Lutener
Director
Drew McIntosh
Writer
Aaron Bocanegra
Editor
Aaron Bocanegra
Sound
Robert Lutener
Motion Graphics
Aaron Bocanegra
Dion Courson
Graphic Designer
Justin LaFontaine
Score
James Stewart
Subtitles
Amy McKenzie
Up North
A feature length documentary (1hr 57 min) exploring the experience of change in the north
Visit Project Post
Up North is a completely independent feature length documentary that won the Best Art Documentary award at the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival in 2010. The piece was shot by Drew McIntosh, Aaron Bocanegra an Rob Lutener. Aaron edited the piece.
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 social, cultural, economic, an environmental (amongst others) 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 Oil sands. 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.
A journey of this magnitude tends to change a person, and we all felt different and better for it.
Producers
Drew McIntosh
Aaron Bocanegra
Robert Lutener
Director
Drew McIntosh
Writer
Aaron Bocanegra
Editor
Aaron Bocanegra
Sound
Robert Lutener
Motion Graphics
Aaron Bocanegra
Dion Courson
Graphic Designer
Justin LaFontaine
Score
James Stewart
Subtitles
Amy McKenzie
Up North
A feature length documentary (1hr 57 min) exploring the experience of change in the north
Visit Project Post
Up North is a completely independent feature length documentary that won the Best Art Documentary award at the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival in 2010. The piece was shot by Drew McIntosh, Aaron Bocanegra an Rob Lutener. Aaron edited the piece.
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 social, cultural, economic, an environmental (amongst others) 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 Oil sands. 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.
A journey of this magnitude tends to change a person, and we all felt different and better for it.
Producers
Drew McIntosh
Aaron Bocanegra
Robert Lutener
Director
Drew McIntosh
Writer
Aaron Bocanegra
Editor
Aaron Bocanegra
Sound
Robert Lutener
Motion Graphics
Aaron Bocanegra
Dion Courson
Graphic Designer
Justin LaFontaine
Score
James Stewart
Subtitles
Amy McKenzie
Up North
A feature length documentary (1hr 57 min) exploring the experience of change in the north
Visit Project Post
Up North is a completely independent feature length documentary that won the Best Art Documentary award at the Mammoth Mountain Film Festival in 2010. The piece was shot by Drew McIntosh, Aaron Bocanegra an Rob Lutener. Aaron edited the piece.
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 social, cultural, economic, an environmental (amongst others) 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 Oil sands. 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.
A journey of this magnitude tends to change a person, and we all felt different and better for it.
Producers
Drew McIntosh
Aaron Bocanegra
Robert Lutener
Director
Drew McIntosh
Writer
Aaron Bocanegra
Editor
Aaron Bocanegra
Sound
Robert Lutener
Motion Graphics
Aaron Bocanegra
Dion Courson
Graphic Designer
Justin LaFontaine
Score
James Stewart
Subtitles
Amy McKenzie
