Wild Festival | Wyoming Premiere: Nuisance Bear

Join Jackson Wild for the Wyoming Premiere of Nuisance Bear, followed by a Q&A with Producer Will N. Miller in The Center Theater!

Nuisance Bear

For thousands of years, polar bears have migrated along the shores of Hudson Bay in northern Canada. Today, that ancient rhythm collides with a human world of tourism, surveillance, and control. Nuisance Bear immerses viewers in the experience of a polar bear forced to navigate tourists, wildlife officers, and hunters as climate change delays the freeze and pushes bears closer to human settlements. When a sacred predator is branded a “nuisance,” it becomes unclear who truly belongs in this shared landscape. Shot with striking intimacy and scale, the film observes bears that are constantly monitored, photographed, and redirected. In tracing this uneasy coexistence, Nuisance Bear becomes a meditation on how humans manage, commodify, and redefine wildlife–overturning the conventions of the nature documentary and reframing animals not as spectacle, but as active agents in a rapidly changing world.