Okpik's Dream (2014)
1h 12m
Running Time
February 14, 2014Release Date
Plot.
Harry Okpik dreamed of becoming a dog musher. But when government agents shot his and thousands of other Inuit huskies across the Canadian Arctic, 11-year-old Harry saw the sky turn red and thought his dream forever destroyed. Now, fifty years later, Harry Okpik reflects on the tragedy of the Dog Slaughter and the accident that led to the loss of his leg. Follow Harry through the arctic seasons as he cares for his huskies and prepares for Ivakkak - a 600 km dog sled race across the Canadian Arctic. It is a race with the greater purpose: to bring back the nearly eradicated Inuit husky and a lost way of life.
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Cast & Crew.
Harry Sam Willy Okpik
Adamie Michaud
Matthew Okpik
Susie Okpik
Katarina Soukup
Producer
Tappia Okpik
Johnny Oovaut
Laura Rietveld
Director / Writer
Katarina Soukup
Producer
Heidi Haines
Editor
Ramachandra Borcar
Original Music Composer
Alexandre Domingue
Director of Photography
Alex Margineanu
Director of Photography
Stefan Nitoslawski
Director of Photography
Kyle Stanfield
Sound
Lynne Trépanier
Sound
Details.
Wiki.
Okpik's Dream is a Canadian documentary film, released in 2015. The film centres on Harry Okpik, an Inuk man from Quaqtaq, who witnessed a government slaughter of Inuit sled dogs as a child and later lost his leg in a hunting accident, and now prepares to compete as a dog musher in the 600 km Ivakkak sled dog race in Nunavik.The film had select film festival screenings, but was distributed primarily as a CBC Television special which aired in August 2015 as an episode of the regional documentary series Absolutely Canadian.The film won a Community Award from the 2015 First Peoples' Festival in Montreal, and was a nominee for Best Documentary Program at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards.