Tom Burke’s 2018 film Losing Alaska is an elegiac study that follows the Alaskan community of Newtok as they struggle to maintain their traditional Yup’ik culture, a subsistence lifestyle of hunting and fishing, and build a new town on safer, higher ground.
Losing Alaska premiered at IDFA in Amsterdam in November 2018. It has since made appearances at Goteborg Film Festival in Sweden and Millennium Film Festival in Belgium, DokFest Munich, Human Rights Nights in Bologna, Saratov Sufferings Festival in Russia, Docs Ireland in Belfast amongst others. In late 2019 it screened at Raindance in London and at the Jean Rouch Documentary Festival at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris.
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