I hope that you’ve been checking out P.O.V. this summer. Tonight is one of my favorite films that I saw last year on the festival circuit and if you haven’t seen it, I hope you will tune in tonight. From the P.O.V. newsletter, a brief note from filmmaker Andrew Walton:

This film is the result of 10 years of hard work and was inspired by my chance encounter with a former Gwitchin chief named Johnny Abel. Johnny felt that a film about the Gwitchin lifestyle could be a valuable tool in preserving the culture. I didn’t plan to tell this story through a father and son that had been estranged for most of their lives, but this story emerged as one of the strongest cultural lessons I witnessed. That is the nature of vérité filmmaking — you begin with an idea, but the final film is defined by the twists and turns the characters’ lives take and how it all unfolds before the camera.

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