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Okpik's Dream

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Okpik's Dream
Directed byLaura Rietveld
Written byLaura Rietveld
Produced byKatarina Soukup
StarringHarry Okpik
CinematographyAlexandre Domingue
Alex Margineanu
Stefan Nitoslawski
Edited byHeidi Haines
Music byRamachandra Borcar
Production
company
Catbird Films
Distributed byCBC Television
Release date
  • August 29, 2015 (2015-08-29)
Running time
73 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesEnglish
Inuktitut

Okpik's Dream is a Canadian documentary film, released in 2015.[1] 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.[2]

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.[3]

The film won a Community Award from the 2015 First Peoples' Festival in Montreal,[2] and was a nominee for Best Documentary Program at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards.[4]

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