In Alaska

DIRECTOR / JAAP VAN HEUSDEN & VINNIE KARETAK

Woody, a depressed 17-year-old boy from a tiny village in Alaska, does something grotesquely stupid: he shoots The Oil Pipeline and becomes a most wanted terrorist, hunted by the seasoned FBI Agent Susan Tarheel. The boy who was fed up with living, is now running for his life. Lost in the wild, without a plan, Woody is not an easy prey. But as Tarheel closes in, she also identifies more with the boy. While Woody escapes across the state and into arctic Canada, he is reconnecting with the land, its people, and the roots of his Inuit mother: he’s learning for the first time what it actually means to be alive.

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Development supported by Netherlands Film Fund, Creative Europe MEDIA, production support by NL Film Fund, NL Film Production Incentive, Telefilm Canada, Eurimages, Creative B.C. Fund, EO, CoBO. Selected by: L’Atelier Cannes Film Festival, Intl. Financing Forum Ontario Creates TIFF, Venice Gap Financing Market.