‘A New Kind of Wilderness’ Director on How She Turned a Living-Off-the-Grid Doc Into an Exquisitely Heartbreaking Story of a Family

In 2014, filmmaker Silje Evensmo Jacobsen became fascinated with a Norwegian photographer’s blog. The blogger – Maria Vatne – visually captured how she and her British husband, Nik Payne, raised and home-schooled their four bilingual children off the grid on a Scandinavian farm. “I admired her, as the family represents a lifestyle and mindset that […]