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FUGITIVE'S RUN

GRAVEYARD ALIVE:
A ZOMBIE NURSE IN LOVE

PROJECT GRIZZLY

APARTMENT HUNTING


Documentary
Canada, 1996
35mm, Color, Dolby 5.1
72 minutes

A National Film Board of Canada production

A Peter Lynch film

Featuring:
Troy Hurtubise

Producers:
Michael Allder
Gerry Flahive
Louise Lore

Distributed in Canada by Reaction Releasing and Microfilms Inc.

Home Video/DVD Rights available through Shoreline Entertainment





In 1996 Project Grizzly took audiences on a bizarre quest with Troy Hurtubise, a "close-quarter bear researcher" obsessed with going face-to-face with a deadly grizzly bear. Eight years after its celebrated premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, Project Grizzly has become an international pop-culture phenomenon.

Directed by Peter Lynch and produced by The National Film Board of Canada Project Grizzly explores the territory between documentary and drama, where the dividing line between fact and imagination is as thin as a knife edge. In this twisted nature film, it is man, not bears, who come under the closest scrutiny. As a pop-culture phenomenon, Project Grizzly has gone where no Canadian documentary has gone before: Quentin Tarantino named it his favorite film of 1996, Harvard awarded Troy Hurtubise their Ig Nobel Prize in 1999 and in 2003 the ultimate compliment was paid as it was famously parodied on "The Simpsons".