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Nuisance Bear

Jack Weisman & Gabriela Osio Vanden · Canada · Documentary · 14 min · 159K views

Directed by Mark Danciger, Nathan Miller · Starring Natasha Atherton, Alexandra Boulton, Eileen Davies, Hugh Ross · 2025

In Churchill, Manitoba, polar bears on their yearly migration must slip past crowds of camera-wielding tourists and vigilant wildlife officers, as seen from the bears' side of the lens.

Flipping the wildlife-documentary gaze, it turns the polar bear spectacle back on the humans pointing their cameras.

Set in Churchill, Manitoba, a famous destination for photographing polar bears, through a shift in perspective, Nuisance Bear reveals an obstacle course of tourist paparazzi and wildlife officers whom the bears must navi

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