 Our short documentary Bear People is an Official Selection of the Tacoma Film Festival, October 9-13th! Bear People started out as a simple oral history project. Our original aim was to collect the stories of environmental activists attending a Grizzly Bear conservation event in Idaho in the summer of 2023. Three subjects volunteered to sit for interviews with Kevin, and everyone seemed to have a great time. A year later, while cutting their interviews together, we began to realize that a narrative was suggesting itself. Around the same time, we learned that footage of the events described by our subjects was sitting mostly ignored in the Internet Archive. The real kickers was that most of this footage was shot by folks we know, including our pal Mike Mease of Buffalo Field Campaign, and Kevin's late friend Ritchie Doyle. In addition, the Earth First! Journal Archives, digitally housed within the Environment and Society Portal of the Rachel Carson Center, backed up our subjects' stories with articles and images written during the Cove-Mallard Campaign, a major topic of conversation within the interviews. Suddenly our first documentary short was coming together as if by magic. The FilmFreeway page for the project is here, and our quick trailer is below. Thanks to old pal Megan Isser and new friend Gary Kout, who are connecting us to the film community here in Ashland and advising on putting a Digital Cinema Package together for Tacoma. We're grateful to TFF to be able to bring these stories to a wider audience in the Pacific Northwest, where our subjects' Actions contributed to the preservation of the Cove-Mallard Roadless Area in the 90s.
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