''Okpik's Dream'' is a Canadian documentary film, released in 2015. The film centres on Harry Okpik, an

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man from

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, 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 The Ivakkak is an annual long-distance sled dog race that follows a variable route through different communities in Nunavik, Canada. Launched in 2001 to promote traditional dogsledding and to revive the endangered Canadian Eskimo Dog, Canadian Inu ...

sled dog race in

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."Okpik's Dream, Nunavik dog sled documentary, wins award"

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, August 12, 2015. The film had select

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screenings, but was distributed primarily as a

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special which aired in August 2015 as an episode of the regional documentary series ''

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''. The film won a Community Award from the 2015 First Peoples' Festival in

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, and was a nominee for Best Documentary Program at the

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."Okpik's Dream, Montreal filmmaker's 1st doc, nominated for Canadian Screen Awards"

, January 20, 2016.

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