The Aatsinki Season was initially conceived and developed at a POV Digital hackathon by Mike Knowlton, Hal Siegel and Filmmaker Jessica Oreck.
An online companion to the feature documentary film Aatsinki: The Story Of Arctic Cowboys, the project is an interactive debate that exposes the many social, environmental, political and moral issues confronting the Aatsinkis – a family of Finnish Lapland reindeer herders.
The online experience continues the interweaving themes of the film and challenges the audience to reconsider their own assumptions about technology, food production, and, most critically, man's place in nature.
Select Press:
Pop Matters, January 2014
Tribeca Film Institute, May 2013
Filmmaker Magazine, December 2012
Visual News, December 2012
