Striving for a way of life in harmony with the wild, the Meader family moved to a mountainous valley, 80 miles above the Arctic Circle and 250 miles from the nearest road. Year of the Caribou chronicles how the Meader family lived off the land, hunting migrating bands of caribou and making their home from the materials of the land. Moving through the drama of the Arctic season, Year of the Caribou shares an intimate wilderness experience.
Year of the Caribou was produced by Heather Meader's parents, Elaine and Fred Meader in the 1960's and 1970's.
Year of the Caribou is a feature-length film that captures the magnificent beauty of the arctic wilderness and documents the Alaska Brooks Range wilderness in a way few films can - through the eyes of a family immersed in wilderness isolation for nearly two decades. An earlier edition of Year of the Caribou was shown by the Meaders throughout the country in the late '60's and early '70's, inspiring a generation in search of an alternative way of life. In the '80's the film was distributed by the Cannon Corporation, both nationally and internationally, under the title, The Alaska Wilderness Adventure. In 2001 the Meader family regained the rights to the film once again, they worked with Monaco Labs in San Fransisco to digitalize the film and rerelease it. In 2009, a Special Features sections was added to the film, updating the Meader family's story to the present time and including a photo journal by Heather.
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