ONE WITH THE WHALE

2024
Feature Documentary

PBS Independent Lens

Directed by Jim Wickens & Peter Chelkowski
Edited by John Farbrother, M. Watanabe Milmore, Jon Ayon
Producers Jim Dickens, Aakapak Susan Apassingok, Peter Chelkowski, Miki Watanabe Milmore, Yaari Walker
Executive Producers Bonni Cohen, Alex Lieberman, Justine Nagan
Music by Elon Ragot
Cinematography by Jim Wickens & Peter Chelkowski

An Alaskan family faces online attacks around their ancestral practices when animal activists target their son, the youngest person to ever harpoon a whale for his village.

2025 Peabody Award Winner
2025 Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary

James Balog Creative Vision Award Mountainfilm Doc Film
Student Jury Award Festival Mountainfilm Doc Film
Audience Award Anchorage International Film Fest
Best Documentary Eely Film Festival
Audience Award Eely Film Festival
Audience Award Climate Film Festival
Jury Award Okinawa Pan-Pacific International Film Festival
Camden International Film Festival
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
Mill Valley Film Festival
Doc NYC