A preview of the film currently in the works.
Forty years ago, as nomadic life was ending for Canada’s Inuit, the sled dog population plummeted from an estimated 20,000 to about 700. The collapse was traumatic, and the wounds of this loss are still open. What happened, and why? This documentary is being made for the National Film Board of Canada, the Aboriginal People’s Television Network, and Societé Radio-Canada. Release fall 2009.
In this story of “two truths” and the power of memory, Piksuk crews traveled across Baffin Island to re-enact (photos) the killings of sled dogs in the 1960s and 1970s.
The dogs are back! Every April, Nunavut mushers engage in the week-long Nunavut Quest sled dog race across the northern Baffin region. Piksuk is in development on a project to bring this event to the rest of the world. Project in development.