Arctic Cross Trailer on Kickstarter Fund Raising website
Arctic Cross Fund Raising explanation from Director Dmitry Trakovsky
Thanks to your donations the director is shooting a documentary about Alaska’s Yup’ik people, an indigenous population that has developed at the intersection of Russian, American, and traditional Eskimo cultures. The project is currently entitled "Arctic Cross".
The funding will be used to make a production trip to the Bethel region of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in late spring. For more information about my vision for the film, please see ‘Project Description’ and ‘Creative Approach and Style’ below. The video posted here is the result of a fact-finding trip I made to Kodiak, Alaska last August. It explores the unique and relatively unknown cultural phenomenon that sparked my curiosity in Alaska in the first place: Russian Orthodox Christianity amongst Native Alaskans. It is often forgotten that the Russian Empire colonized Alaska for over a century, and the trailer above shows that the legacy of that period is still palpable today. I hope you enjoy the short doc, which is meant to introduce you to the subject and allude to the poetic possibilities of the proposed film. Some segments from the video might be used in Arctic Cross, but since the scouting trip led me to a different subject than I had originally expected (I shifted my focus from Russian Alaskan history to contemporary Yup’ik culture), most of the film will be shot during upcoming production trips to the Alaskan tundra.
For more detailed information please go to Kickstarter campaign page.
Watch the trailer in HD on Youtube or visit trakovskyfilm.com for further information about my work.
Thanks to your donations the director is shooting a documentary about Alaska’s Yup’ik people, an indigenous population that has developed at the intersection of Russian, American, and traditional Eskimo cultures. The project is currently entitled "Arctic Cross".
The funding will be used to make a production trip to the Bethel region of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in late spring. For more information about my vision for the film, please see ‘Project Description’ and ‘Creative Approach and Style’ below. The video posted here is the result of a fact-finding trip I made to Kodiak, Alaska last August. It explores the unique and relatively unknown cultural phenomenon that sparked my curiosity in Alaska in the first place: Russian Orthodox Christianity amongst Native Alaskans. It is often forgotten that the Russian Empire colonized Alaska for over a century, and the trailer above shows that the legacy of that period is still palpable today. I hope you enjoy the short doc, which is meant to introduce you to the subject and allude to the poetic possibilities of the proposed film. Some segments from the video might be used in Arctic Cross, but since the scouting trip led me to a different subject than I had originally expected (I shifted my focus from Russian Alaskan history to contemporary Yup’ik culture), most of the film will be shot during upcoming production trips to the Alaskan tundra.
For more detailed information please go to Kickstarter campaign page.
Watch the trailer in HD on Youtube or visit trakovskyfilm.com for further information about my work.
