Alaska Long Hunters (2021)
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General Information
Completed On: 01 May, 2021
Duration: 1 hr 1 min 56 sec
Genres: Documentary
Language: English
Country: United States
Submitted By: Mark Rose
Festival Rating 7.5
This award winning story follows the life of a young pilot who flew in Alaska’s frontier arctic. Experience the front-seat thrills of bush planes and helicopters operating in the most dangerous conditions on earth, airborne among the magnificent mountains, glaciers and rivers that only Alaska has to offer. Includes true-life experiences of accidents, comradeship, humor and heartbreak of life in early Alaska, gone forever when dismantled into parks in the 1980’s. Based on the book Last of the Long Hunters by Mark Rose, the scene opens with an early history of the Great Land and those that lived in it through interviews with several life-long Alaskans, including Hilda Lidner, Ray Atkins and Gale Ranny to name a few. Leading up to the introduction of the authors use of a new tool of transport – the single engine airplane, but not without extracting a terrible price. Experience what it was like to growing up among the dangerous game, hunting the massive caribou herds and absorbing the greatness of the county. Pilots will gain from the flying experiences related, and every boy, man and aviator will be compelled to grapple with its final truth, concluding with a crisis encounter that forever changed the pilot's life forever. Filmed on Location in Alaska. Premiere's Spring 2020. www.alaskalonghunters.com
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ProducersMark D. Rose
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Film TypeDocumentary
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GenresAdventure, religion
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Runtime1 hours 1 minutes 56 seconds
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Completion Date01 May, 2021
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Production Budget499998 USD
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Country of OriginUnited States
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Country of FilmingUnited States
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Film LanguageEnglish
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Shooting Formatmp4
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Aspect Ratio
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Film ColorColor
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Student ProjectNo
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First-time FilmmakerYes
NRB
Nashille, Tenn
Nashville, Tenn
Director's Biography
Mark D. Rose was born in Corvallis, Oregon to a logging family seasoned in the outdoors. At an early age he and his family moved to Alaska, where he was raised near Juneau, Alaska. Immersing himself in that challenging environ, he early took up aviation, focusing his career for the next decades, eventually thrown into the construction of the Alaska Pipeline as a helicopter fleet manager, tasked with building out the mountain network vital to the project. Rose worked and flew in those extremes which pushed he and his colleagues to the edge on many occasions, teaching life lessons that only Alaska and the mountains can.
Mark was always fascinated with photography, attested by the photo albums he collected based on the experiences he witnessed and documented along the way. Eventually earning multiple patents in wireless, Mark moved from high-tech to writing and now to now to film, seeing that the current generation would rather watch than read, so here I am!
Director's Statement
As a pilot and later fleet manager, tasked with building out the mountain network for the Alaska pipeline in the 70's, I worked and flew in those extremes which pushed my self and colleagues to the edge on many occasions, teaching life lessons that only Alaska and the mountains can. Out of such was birthed the volume "Last of the Long Hunters" (2015), the basis of this film. This is my life and of those this film seeks to document. It's both history yet all non-fiction, so please enjoy and believe! Directors note: This is an ALL NEW VERSION of the worldwide classic, adding the Gayle Ranney search and rescue story! English subtitles included.
