Sage Delaney

Field Filmmaker & Wilderness Taxidermist – Anchorage, Alaska

Raised on a steady diet of freezer meat and Discovery Channel reruns, Sage Delaney grew up with a camera in one hand and a scalpel in the other. Somewhere between skinning her first ptarmigan and editing her first moose hunt highlight reel, she found her calling in the space where storytelling meets still life.

Now based just outside Anchorage, Sage splits her seasons between the field and the studio. During the long days of summer, she treks across the tundra filming caribou migrations, floatplane fly-ins, and subsistence hunts for families living deep in the bush. When the snow sets in, she retreats to her taxidermy shop — a warm little den filled with glass eyes, dried moss, and stories waiting to be mounted.

Her short films bring the Alaskan wilderness to life with raw beauty and honesty, blending modern filmmaking with the timeless rhythms of the hunt. Her mounts aren’t just trophies — they’re tributes to the land and the lives that cross it.

Sage writes about the quiet pride of skinning something with your own hands, the art of telling a story without saying a word, and the importance of preserving not just wildlife — but the wild life.

Favorite scene to shoot: A hunter returning alone at twilight, pack heavy and heart full, with the wind just starting to sing through the spruce.