Robert Lester & Ben Kaden: Sharing the Spectacle of the Brooks Range, One Step At a Time
Two filmmakers set out to walk all 211 miles of the proposed Ambler Road through Alaska's Brooks Range, and the plan fell apart by day five. Robert Lester and Ben Kaden tell Bill Hodge and Anders Reynolds how illness, injury, and mosquitoes changed their film, Roadless, and why they wanted to show what is at risk instead of relying on generic Arctic imagery. They talk about what the largest intact stretch of wilderness in the United States feels like, whether images of wild places help protect them, what they hope viewers do after the credits, and why Lester says the debate over copper is…
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