Founder & director | wild arctic films
Isley Reust is a documentary director and the founder of Wild Arctic Films, based in the Westfjords of Iceland. Her work focuses on remote and extreme environments, often filmed at sea during long-form expeditions.
Working across the Arctic, Antarctic, and other isolated regions, she captures human and environmental stories shaped by endurance, conservation, and scientific exploration, with a focus on life in some of the most challenging places on Earth.
WILD ARCTIC FILMS
POLAR KINSHIPS
Polar Kinships is a story that celebrates the voices of two indigenous, nomadic sea peoples from the opposite ends of the world, the Kawésqar from Chile and the livi from East Greenland. The short film illustrates and tells the story of -to our knowledge- the first connection between these two communities, on a joint voyage taking place on sailing ship Byr in the fjords of East Greenland.
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