IWFF: The Road to 50: Grizzly Man

The Road to 50 series will occur monthly from now until the 50th International Wildlife Film Festival in April. Each month, we'll be highlighting one of the most influential films of its decade from a scientific deep dive into the mind of the most famous primate on Earth, to a tragic tale of the blurred line between man and the wilderness, to an experimental comedy about invasive amphibians.
Werner Herzog’s gripping documentary chronicles one of the most extreme and ultimately tragic experiments in human-animal cohabitation ever attempted. For thirteen consecutive summers, single-mindedly devoted environmentalist Timothy Treadwell lived (and finally died) among the brown bears at Alaska’s Katmai National Park. The footage that he shot forms the core of this fascinating, unsettling, and thought-provoking inquiry into obsession and the fragile relationship between man and nature.