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Fellowship Sends Alaska Natives to Hollywood Diversity Forum

By admin | November 30, 2017

Vanessa Sweet working on animation

The telecommunications company GCI is partnering with the nonprofit Walter Kaitz Foundation to send two Alaska Natives to the 2018 Hollywood Creative Forum in Los Angeles.

May ’72: A film crew hits Nome

By admin | May 4, 2013

May 5, 1972: KNOM is helping a Walt Disney production unit this month with filming of the feature-length Tundra Summer, starring two Nome third grade children. The movie is released with the title Two Against the Arctic, featuring a trained polar bear from Seattle named Igloo.