Film release! A new film about sea ice and whaling by Kim and Lloyd Pikok now online!

We’re thrilled to announce the online film release of ‘It’s All About the Happy People’, a film by Kimberly Kivvaq Pikok and Lloyd Pikok, Jr. about sea ice, whaling, and working together on Alaska’s Northern Coast in Utqiagvik, Alaska. The film was produced as part of Kimberly’s M.S. Thesis at University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Learn more about the film here and more about Kimberly’s thesis research, “Centering community and joy through co-production: Tracking the seasonal changes of Utqiagvik’s spring whaling.”