# Doc Talk Podcast: ‘Nuisance Bear’ Directors On Their Ursine Oscar Contender, Shot From A Polar Bear POV

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/doc-talk-podcast-nuisance-bear-directors-on-their-ursine-oscar-contender-shot-from-a-polar-bear-pov/
- Published: 2026-10-28T00:12:12+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-28T01:26:47+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/10/doc-talk-podcast-nuisance-bear-directors-1237206556/
- Topics: Entertainment, Film

## Key points

- ‘Nuisance Bear’ tells the story from polar bears’ perspective.
- The debut won Sundance’s US Documentary Grand Jury Prize.
- Its directors discussed filming and their relationship on a podcast.

## Summary

‘Nuisance Bear’, the feature debut of directors Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman, has received widespread recognition this year. The documentary challenges conventional nature films by presenting events from the polar bears’ point of view, showing how human activity shapes their lives near Churchill, Manitoba.

The film premiered at Sundance in January and won the US Documentary Grand Jury Prize; it has since received more than a dozen other awards and five Critics Choice Documentary Award nominations. In a podcast discussion, the directors described filming in Churchill, their closest encounter with a bear after it was relocated, and how they became engaged and married during Sundance.

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