FILMS IN PRODUCTION
Wild Arctic Media Group is dedicated to creating powerful, character-driven films that explore remote regions, cultural resilience, and the human relationship with extreme environments.
Our work is grounded in deep access, long-term collaboration, and a commitment to amplifying voices and stories that are often overlooked or unreachable.
We make films to inspire understanding, preserve disappearing knowledge, and reveal the beauty and complexity of the world’s most isolated places.
THE LAST CATCH
Feature Documentary
Status: In Production
Primary Location: West Point, Liberia
Focus: Illegal fishing, coastal sovereignty, community survival
Budget: $350,000 to fully fund
Overview
The Last Catch follows the frontline struggle of local fishermen, the Liberian Coast Guard, and Sea Shepherd as they fight to defend West Africa’s coastal waters from illegal foreign trawlers.
This is a story of survival, justice, and resistance — where life and livelihood are fought for at sea.
Why This Film Matters Now
Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing is one of the largest environmental crimes in the world, yet its human consequences remain largely unseen. West Point — one of the most densely populated coastal communities in Africa — sits at the epicenter of this crisis. What happens here will shape food systems, migration, and regional stability for decades.
Production Status
Principal photography is underway with ongoing access to local fishermen, enforcement operations, and coastal patrols. The project is being filmed over multiple phases to capture escalation, enforcement outcomes, and long-term impact.
Funding & Partnerships
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$350,000
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Strategic funding and impact partnerships open
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Completion funding, post-production, impact campaign
ACROSS THE BLUE
Feature Documentary
Status: In Production
Primary Locations: Atlantic Ocean · Namibia · St. Helena · Brazil · The Azores
Focus: Life at sea, endurance, tradition, and the modern relevance of tall ships
Budget: $500,000 to full fund
Overview
Across the Blue follows life aboard the tall ship Bark Europa during extended ocean crossings, capturing the rhythm, labor, and human relationships that unfold far from land. Through the experiences of crew and participants, the film explores what it means to commit to weeks at sea in a world increasingly defined by speed, automation, and distance from the natural elements.
This is not a historical portrait. It is a living, present-tense story of people choosing hardship, slowness, and collective effort in the modern age.
Why This Film Matters Now
At a time when global movement is faster, cheaper, and increasingly disconnected from physical reality, Across the Blueexamines one of the last remaining spaces where time, weather, and human limits still dictate outcomes. As traditional seamanship and long-form ocean crossings disappear, the knowledge, discipline, and culture embedded in these voyages risk being lost.
The film captures a way of moving through the world that is rapidly vanishing — not as nostalgia, but as a mirror to how modern society relates to risk, endurance, and the natural world.
Production Status
Principal photography has been completed across multiple ocean crossings, with additional filming planned to complete narrative arcs and long-term character development. The project benefits from rare extended access aboard Bark Europa, allowing the story to unfold organically over time rather than through staged encounters.
Funding & Partnerships
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$500,000
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Strategic funding partnerships open
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Completion filming, post-production, editorial refinement
The Longest Row
Feature Documentary
Status: In Production
Primary Locations: Pacific Ocean · Indian Ocean · Atlantic Ocean
Focus: Human endurance, isolation, risk, and the psychological cost of extreme pursuit
Budget: $3,000,000 to fully fund
Overview
The Longest Row follows a solo ocean rower attempting to circumnavigate the globe entirely under human power. Alone at sea for months at a time, the journey unfolds across the world’s most volatile oceans, where progress is dictated by weather, physical limits, and mental resilience rather than technology or support.
The film is built on long-term, real-time access to an active attempt, capturing not only moments of triumph but prolonged uncertainty, fear, and vulnerability. This is not a victory story — it is an unfiltered examination of what sustained isolation and commitment demand of a person over time.
Why This Film Matters Now
As modern life becomes increasingly mediated, automated, and insulated from physical consequence, The Longest Rowconfronts a rare form of experience that cannot be optimized, accelerated, or controlled. The oceans the rower crosses are changing — becoming warmer, more unpredictable, and more dangerous — amplifying the stakes of an already extreme undertaking.
This story can only exist while it is unfolding. The risks are real, the outcome is unknown, and the psychological toll cannot be recreated or staged after the fact. If not documented now, it disappears.
Production Status
Filming is ongoing alongside the active circumnavigation attempt, with material captured across multiple ocean basins. The project relies on extended observational access, remote documentation, and in-person filming at key landfalls to track physical deterioration, mental strain, and the cumulative cost of endurance over time.
Funding & Partnerships
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$3,000,000
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Strategic funding and editorial partnerships open
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Continued production, post-production, long-form edit, distribution strategy
SILA
Feature Documentary
Status: In Development / Early Production
Primary Location: East Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat)
Focus: Cultural continuity, resilience, identity, and life shaped by place
Budget: $350,000 to fully fund
Overview
Sila is an intimate, character-driven documentary set in East Greenland, following the daily lives of a small group of individuals navigating cultural continuity in one of the most remote inhabited regions on Earth. Through language, work, family, and relationship to the land and sea, the film explores how identity is shaped — and tested — by isolation, tradition, and change.
Rather than presenting Greenland as spectacle or frontier, Sila centers lived experience, allowing the story to unfold through observation and trust built over time. The film is grounded in presence, routine, and the quiet decisions that define survival and belonging in the Arctic.
Why This Film Matters Now
East Greenlandic culture exists at the intersection of deep tradition and accelerating change. As economic pressure, climate instability, and external influence reshape daily life, long-held ways of understanding community, labor, and identity are under increasing strain.
Sila documents this moment not as a record of disappearance, but as a portrait of persistence — capturing how people adapt, endure, and define themselves on their own terms. This is a perspective rarely afforded the time, access, or nuance required to be truly understood.
Production Status
Development and early filming are underway, with a focus on long-term access and relationship-based storytelling. The project is designed to unfold across multiple seasons, allowing character arcs, environmental shifts, and cultural rhythms to emerge naturally rather than through compressed production timelines.
Funding & Partnerships
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$350,000
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Development and production partnerships open
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Principal photography, long-term access, post-production planning
BEFORE THE LIGHT LEAVES
Feature Documentary
Status: In Development
Primary Location: Ittoqqortoormiit, East Greenland
Focus: Isolation, seasonal darkness, endurance, & life at the edge of the inhabited world
Budget: $575,000 to fully fund
Overview
Before the Light Leaves is a character-driven documentary set in Ittoqqortoormiit, one of the most isolated towns in the Arctic. As the sun disappears for months and winter closes in, the film follows daily life during a period when movement, communication, and psychological resilience are tested to their limits.
Rather than presenting the Arctic as spectacle, the film remains grounded in lived experience — observing how individuals navigate solitude, routine, and responsibility as light, time, and external connection recede. The story unfolds quietly, shaped by seasonal rhythm and the internal landscapes that emerge when the world narrows.
Why This Film Matters Now
Permanent darkness is no longer only a physical condition — it has become an increasingly resonant metaphor for modern isolation, mental strain, and disconnection. In Ittoqqortoormiit, these pressures are not abstract; they are lived realities intensified by geography, climate, and limited access to outside support.
As environmental instability and social change reshape Arctic communities, Before the Light Leaves captures a moment when endurance is measured not by dramatic events, but by persistence, routine, and the ability to remain present when retreat is not an option.
Production Status
The project is in development with location research and relationship-building underway. Filming is planned to take place over a full winter season to allow the psychological, environmental, and narrative arc of darkness to unfold organically rather than through compressed production windows.
Funding & Partnerships
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$575,000
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Development and early production partnerships open
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Principal photography, long-form winter access, post-production planning
DAUGHTERS OF THE NORTH
Feature Documentary
Status: In Development
Primary Locations: Finland · Canada · Iceland
Focus: Belonging, departure, return, and the cost of place
Budget: $1,200,000
Overview
Daughters of the North is a three-part documentary series centered on women living across the circumpolar North, each confronting a defining choice: to stay, to leave, or to return. Set in Finland, Canada, and Iceland, the series examines how geography, culture, and expectation shape personal decisions — and the consequences that follow.
Each episode focuses on a single woman whose relationship to place reveals a different response to life in the North. Rather than presenting parallel portraits, the series is structured around decision-making under pressure, allowing identity, tradition, and resilience to emerge through lived consequence rather than abstraction.
Why This Film Matters Now
Across northern regions, economic shifts, climate instability, and changing social expectations are forcing individuals to reassess what it means to belong. For women in particular, these pressures intersect with family responsibility, cultural inheritance, and personal agency in ways that are often invisible or oversimplified.
Daughters of the North captures this moment of transition by asking a fundamental question: what does it cost to remain connected to a place — and what is lost when that connection is severed? These are not theoretical dilemmas, but real decisions with lasting impact.
Series Structure
Episode 1: The Stayer — A woman who remains, absorbing the cost of continuity
Episode 2: The Leaver — A woman who leaves in search of autonomy or survival
Episode 3: The Returner — A woman who comes back changed, confronting expectation and belonging
The series is designed as a repeatable format, allowing future seasons to expand into new northern regions while maintaining a consistent editorial spine.
Production Status
Development is underway with research and character access in progress across all three regions. The project is designed for extended, relationship-based filming to ensure depth, trust, and narrative integrity rather than surface-level portraiture.
Funding & Partnerships
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$1,200,000
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Development and series partnerships open
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Development financing, principal photography, long-form editorial planning
POLAR KINSHIPS
Short Documentary
Status: Completed
Primary Locations: East Greenland
Focus: Life at sea, endurance, tradition, and the modern relevance of tall ships
Budget: Fully funded
Polar Kinships is a story about belonging, about continuity. It is a story that celebrates the voices of two indigenous, nomadic sea peoples from the opposite ends of the world, the Kawésqar from Chile and the Iivi from East Greenland. The short film illustrates and tells the story of -to our knowledge- the first connection between these two communities, on a joint voyage taking place on sailing ship Byr in the fjords of East Greenland.
Funding & Partnerships
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Fully funded
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