Northern coming-of-age film seeks Inuit actor for lead role – Nunatsiaq News

Nov 15, 2024

Co-directed, co-written by Jaap van Heusden and Vinnie Karetak, movie will be shot in Nunavut and B.C.

The life of a 17-year-old boy from a small Alaskan village changes overnight as he becomes a wanted terrorist for shooting a hole into the trans-Alaska pipeline before escaping into the wild.

Fleeing an FBI manhunt in the United States, the boy escapes to Canada where he reconnects with his Inuit mother’s roots in Nunavut and learns for the first time “what it actually means to be alive.”

This is the plot of In Alaska, an upcoming feature film from Dutch director Jaap van Heusden, co-written and co-directed by Iqaluit-based filmmaker Vinnie Karetak.

Described by Karetak as a “smorgasbord of feelings and real situations,” the storyline of the film, which is fully fictional, is partly inspired by the 2001 FBI investigation into Alaskan hunter Daniel Carson Lewis, who drunkenly shot a hole into the trans-Alaska oil pipeline.

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