Morgan Heim (Director), Samantha Paige Huset Dwinnell (Producer) | 2024 | 14 min.
2026 Official Selection
Two friends and their canine sidekick explore how the world’s smallest and fattest reindeer are unexpectedly thriving in a warming Arctic. But is what they’re seeing a good thing for Svalbard reindeer, or the calm before the storm?
Conservation photographer and filmmaker Morgan Heim explores personal stories
behind protecting wildlife and their ecosystems. She is a National Geographic Explorer,
Senior Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers, and founder
of Neon Raven Story Labs — a production house dedicated to stories of nature and our
relationships with it. A multi-recipient in Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Big Picture
and Siena International Photography Awards, you can find her work
in Audubon, Smithsonian, National Geographic, and The New York Times
