THU NOV 21 TO SAT NOV 23 - 7:00 PM
SUN NOV 24 - 2:00 PM
WED NOV 27 - 7:00 PM
DIR. COSTA BOTES
2012 | NEW ZEALAND | 78 MIN
Shot entirely in Churchill, Manitoba by New Zealand director Costa Botes, The Last Dogs of Winter is the incredible story of rebel outsider Brian Ladoon’s efforts to preserve and breed Canadian Eskimo dogs in the harsh Northern landscape. Giant polar bears, the largest carnivores on earth, share their ancestral earth with half wild Canadian Eskimo Dogs. The Dogs, ala Qimmiq or Inuit Sled Dogs, were once indispensable to human life in the Canadian arctic. Today, the breed faces extinction. Since 1976 Brian Ladoon has stuck to a promise to maintain a viable breeding colony battling chronic underfunding, wandering polar bears, officialdom and a harsh natural environment to keep his word.
