Patagonia Releases New Film "Newtok"

Patagonia Films released its newest documentary feature, Newtok – a film about a community on the frontlines of climate change.

Built on a delta at the edge of the Bering Sea, this tiny Yup’ik village has been dealing with melting permafrost, river erosion and decaying infrastructure for decades. To keep their culture and community intact, the 360 Yup’ik residents must relocate their entire village to stable ground upriver while facing a federal government that has failed to take appropriate action to combat climate change. In moving their village, they will become some of America’s first climate change refugees. This is a film of a village seeking justice in the face of climate disaster.

This film includes a call to action, which asks viewers to text NEWTOK to 71333 to add their name and help secure the rights of this community displaced by climate change.

Newtok was directed and produced by Andrew Burton and Michael Kirby Smith and produced by Marie Meade.