Students headed to Vancouver for international film festival

Wrangell students’ filmmaking efforts are going global — at least to Vancouver, British Columbia.

This February, Wrangell high schoolers Jackson Pearson and Silje Morse will travel to the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival alongside teacher Laura Davies. The trio was invited to attend the festival by See Stories — an Alaska nonprofit dedicated to building “inclusive communities with film and story.”

See Stories and Wrangell’s high school documentary film club, Stikine Stories (whose program is modeled after See Stories), have collaborated since 2022. Pearson, who is a sophomore thi...