Sarah Betcher

Sarah is an award winning documentary filmmaker and owner of Farthest North Films, a company specializing in films that communicate across cultures, especially showcasing indigenous traditions. Her ethnographic interests were sparked by her experience living in the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific as a young child. She has traveled extensively around the world as an adult learning how indigenous people utilize local resources for food, medicine and lifestyle products. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Conservation Ecology and Master’s degree in Cross-Cultural Studies from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, with a focus on ethnographic film and Alaska Native Studies. Since 2005, Sarah has been living as an ethnographic filmmaker and naturalist guide across many regions of Alaska. She has spent extensive time filming in rural Alaska producing many short films, some of which can be seen on her website at www.farthestnorthfilms.com. Her community-based film project approach is to form a bridge of communication between local indigenous knowledge with western science research.