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U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary, Sundance Film Festival 2026
Since centuries, Polar bears have migrated along the shores of Hudson Bay in northern Canada. Today, that ancient rhythm collides with a human world of tourism, surveillance, and control. Nuisance Bear follows a polar bear as it moves through areas shared with tourists, wildlife officers and hunters. As climate change delays the freezing of the sea, the bear is forced to spend more time near human settlements in search of food. When people label the bear a “nuisance,” the film raises questions about who really belongs in this shared environment: humans or wildlife.
A US-Canadian documentary filmmaker and cinematographer, Jack Weisman is the co-founder of Documist, an Emmy-and-Peabody-winning production company based in New York and Toronto. His works have premiered at Sundance, SXSW, TIFF and IDFA. He executive-produced The Territory. Venezuelan-Canadian director and cinematographer Gabriela Osio Vanden, based in Toronto, is a HotDocs 2022 Fellow and York University film graduate. Her works have screened at TIFF, Camerimage, SXSW, IDFA, Sheffield DocFest and True/False.
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