On April 8, 2003, husband and wife team Karsten Heuer (wildlife biologist) and Leanne Allison (environmentalist) left the remote community of Old Crow,Yukon, to join the Porcupine Caribou Herd on their epic life journey. For 5 months the Canadians migrated on foot with the 123,000-member herd from wintering to calving grounds in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and back again — 1500km across snow and tundra. They completed their journey on Sept. 8, 2003 and headed straight to Washington, DC to tell politicians + activists what they found.

In this feature-length documentary following the herd's migration, the couple hopes to raise awareness of the threats to the caribou's survival. Along the way they brave Arctic weather, icy rivers, hordes of mosquitoes and a very hungry grizzly bear. Dramatic footage and video diaries combine to provide an intimate perspective of an epic expedition.

You can watch the film in Full Screen Mode at the Being Caribou Website (www.beingcaribou.com/beingcaribou/index.html) or at the National Film Board of Canada - http://nfb.ca/film/being_caribou

This film won the Grand Price at the 12th Annual Banff Mountain Film Festival.