The Legend of the Ice Bears 3D Promo

Once a year, in the far, far north of Canada, the elemental forces of nature create a scenario that is so magical - and so unlikely - that if we weren't showing it to you in rich, immersive 3D, you wouldn't believe us.

In a place where the river never freezes, even in midwinter, the legend of the Ice Bear was born. A sacred place the Vuntut Gwitchin people call Bear Cave Mountain, one of the last truly wild places on earth.

Straddling the Arctic Circle in the Yukon, the place where this extraordinary scenario plays out, is an oasis of life in a frozen desert. A place where schools of salmon come to spawn, and where the legendary Ice Bears congregate, shimmering in the low Arctic sunlight, tinkling as they walk, routinely bathed in the eerie glow of the Aurora Borealis. As the Grizzlies fish and splash about in the free flowing river, the water droplets soak into the bears' thick fur, freeze in the cold winter arctic air and slowly transform the bears into a legend.

And the magic of this place doesn't end there. The very geology that creates the hydrothermal anomaly that keeps the river flowing in sub-zero temperatures has also riddled the adjacent mountain with caves that keep the bears warm in the winter.

Our film will be the first 3D documentary to capture the soul stirring beauty of Bear Cave Mountain and the annual congregation of Ice Bears, but it will also be a rare opportunity to experience a magical region that can only be described as a place NORTH OF ORDINARY.

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• grizley bear Yukon
• salmon
• geology
• preservation
• Bears
• Bear Cave Mountain