niobe thompson

Niobe Thompson is a documentary filmmaker and anthropologist, with a PhD from Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute. An experienced producer, writer and on-screen presenter, his recent films include Inuit Odyssey (CBC) and Tar Sands: Canada for Sale (CBC). He also specialises in location producing on extreme high-Arctic locations (BBC’s Frozen Planet (BBC) and Channel 4’s Medicine Men Go Wild). Before joining Clearwater Media, he was Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta, spent three years as a human rights researcher in Africa and South Asia, and worked as a forest fire fighter in northern Canada. His most recent book, Settlers on the Edge, is based on five years of research in the Russian Arctic.