An award-winning film directed by Bo Boudart from the 2015 International Wildlife Film Festival.

Worlds collide in the Tongass Forest, when the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act turns tribes into corporations and sparks a lengthy logging frenzy. A story of division and redemption plays out between a Tlingit brother and sister, showing the possibility of healing both the forest and the native community.

Walking in Two Worlds explores the human history of the Tongass in Southeast Alaska. This is America’s largest temperate rainforest that covers 17 million acres, also one of the world’s ecological wonders. The Tlingit and Haida tribes are also a part of this forest since time immemorial and whose cultures are vibrant today.

This film captures the story of Tlingit ancestral rituals, their matriarchal society rooted in their animal clans and their subsistence traditions. Today the Tongass forest continues to be the center of controversy.  Almost one million acres have already been clearcut from this forest since the 1950s, and more proposed clearcuts now threaten the remaining old growth forest and its sensitive wildlife habitats.

Run time: 63 min.

WILD FILMS AT THE LIBRARY is a free series of award-winning international wildlife films selected from the International Wildlife Film Festival. The International Wildlife Film Festival was established in 1977 in Missoula, Montana with a mission to promote awareness, knowledge and understanding of wildlife, habitat, people and nature through excellence in film, television and other media.