FARMINGTON – The Western Maine Audubon Society will present “A Winter Trip to Labrador” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, at the University of Maine at Farmington in Room C23, Roberts Learning Center.

Last winter board member Steve Bien and his wife, Ellen Grunblatt, joined Alexandra and Garrett Conover for a three-week winter walk in the Menihek Hills in western Labrador.

Filmmaker Juliet Brown was also on the trip to make a film detailing the Conovers’ winter travel and camping methods. But as the trip progressed and the filming evolved, Brown’s film became less about the technicalities of winter travel and more an exploration of the hearts and minds of two extraordinary Maine guides.

This will be a two-for-one night. Bien will open with a brief slide show of his trip and Brown will follow with her work-in-progress film, “None of us are from Here,” about the Conovers and their traditional approach to winter travel in the Labrador bush.

Bien, a Farmington physician, has always had a fondness for winter camping. He has done many winter trips in Maine and elsewhere, using the traditional modern tools of freeze dried food cuisine, backpacking stoves, nylon tent and mountaineering snow shoes.

Traveling in a group with Garrett and Alexandra Conover in traditional style – canvas tents heated with wood stoves, toboggans and snowshoes – was an alternative to explore. Three weeks in Labrador, the land of the bottomless snows, seemed a great way to do it.

But the differences in approaches turned out far deeper than just wool pants instead of fleece, and those differences are at the heart of the experience he and his wife, Ellen Grunblatt, had on their trip.

Brown, a Rockland-based filmmaker, was on the trip to create a video of the Conovers’ camping techniques. Originally from England, she had been studying and working in film in the UK before coming to Maine in 1997 to a do wooden boat building apprenticeship.

The final boat she built during the apprenticeship was a Peapod, a double ended boat that was Maine’s first lobster boat in the 1800s.

Her desire to combine her interest in Peapods with her film-making experience resulted in the DVD, “Peapods of the Maine Coast,” which is an oral history of the craft. When it screened at the Camden International Film Festival it won a prize in the Maine documentary film competition.

She is at work on a documentary about an Indian environmental activist, Vandana Shiva, and is co-producing short features for the Strand Theater in Rockland. Her Labrador footage was recently shown at the Vermont Snow Walkers rendezvous.

Brown will share her Labrador film and will discuss its evolution and her approach to shooting in the field.

The program is free and open to the public. It will be the last program of the season. The next program should be in April.