Проект «Гризли»: Человек и медведь

the 2005 documentary film by Werner Herzog about the late bear enthusiast Timothy Treadwell

Project Grizzly is a 1996 documentary about Canadian inventor Troy Hurtubise. The film follows Hurtubise's obsession with researching the Canadian grizzly bear up close ever since surviving an early encounter with such a bear. The film was directed by Peter Lynch and produced by the National Film Board of Canada who approached Hurtubise after reading his 1990 book White Tape: An Authentic Behind the Scenes Look at Project Grizzly.

After a dangerous but victimless encounter with a giant grizzly bear during a camping trip in 1984, North Bay, Ontario resident Troy Hurtubise is inspired to research the species up close. A scrap metal merchant, Hurtubise builds a space suit like "grizzly proof" suit of armour inspired by the film RoboCop, which he calls "Ursus Mark VI". a format typically reserved for non theatrical filmmaking. According to Lynch, the maintenance of believability and continuity was taken into consideration throughout the filming process. The film was subsequently screened at other Canadian film festivals throughout the fall of 1996 As of 2001, Project Grizzly has grossed Can$30 million. The film was released on DVD on 11 October 2004.

Rick Groen of The Globe and Mail awarded the film three stars out of four, describing it as "often hilarious", "occasionally touching", and "a curious source of national pride." Writing for the Ottawa Citizen, Noel Taylor rated the film three stars out of five, while Roger Levesque of the Edmonton Journal gave the film four stars out of four. Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino called the film his favourite documentary of all time. While giving Hurtubise an honorary award, Harvard University described Project Grizzly as a "powerful and moving film." In 1998, following the theatrical success of the film, Hurtubise admitted to not liking the end result. "I told the NFB people we shouldn't go looking for grizzlies in October, so what we do? We go looking for grizzlies in October," he complained. He also criticizes the NFB for the humorous tone of the film which he claims failed to include much of his research, and says the five months he spent working on the film caused him to go bankrupt.