A Plea for Refuge - The film ...

We are very proud to present the film, A Plea For Refuge, which will premiere at the Banff Mountain Film Festival on November 2nd.
Jeff Shapiro and Cody Tuttle, both members of Team Kortel, traveled to one of the last remaining wilderness areas on the North American continent, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which is still in its natural state and truly untouched by human intervention.
In 1987, 1.56 million acres of coastal plain, ANWR Section 1002, were designated for potential oil and gas exploration. In August, plans were approved to sell the leases on this section of ANWR. This will threaten animal species, a fragile landscape due to climate change, the birthplaces of the Porcupine caribou herd, and affect the indigenous cultures of the Gwich'in and Iñupiaq peoples of Canada and northern Arctic Alaska. While also altering one of the last pristine public lands in North America.
To learn more and help fight and protect ANWR, as well as find information on screenings of the film, visit www.apleaforrefuge.com

Movie synopsis:

Two adventurous friends, Jeff Shapiro and Cody Tuttle, have a desire to travel through one of the last truly unspoiled wilderness areas on the North American continent. While attempting to paraglide through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, located in the eastern Brooks Range of Alaska, north of the Arctic Circle, they gain a necessary and visceral connection to the importance of fiercely protecting one's nature. Over the course of the adventure, their views on friendship, risk and the importance of the word "wilderness" evolve, creating memories for a lifetime; lives that prove to be not only limited, but worth sharing through these memories if this special landscape is to be maintained, just as it is, for generations to come.