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.
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.
Credits
// Cast
Noomi Rapace
Leo Matthew Temela
Yin Wang
Zorga Qaunaq
Miali Buscemi
Joanassie Aupaluk
// Director
Jaap van Heusden
// Co-Director
Vinnie Karetak
// Screenplay
Jaap van Heusden
Vinnie Karetak
// Producer
Marc Bary (IJswater Films)
// Producer
Tyler Hagan (Experimental Forest Films, CAN)
Vinnie Karetak (Uuktimiaq Studios, CAN)
// Executive Producers
Niv Fichman, Fraser Ash & Kevin Kirkst (Rhombus Media, CAN)
Remy Mulder
Jaap van Heusden
Gregory Chambet (FR)
Omar Chalabi (CAN)
Matthew Foster (CAN)
Daniel Koefoed
Guirec van Slingelandt
// Line Producers
Nach Dudsdeemaytha (CAN)
Ben Bouwmeester
Mendy Post (1st period)
// Associate Producers
Olivia Marie Golosky
Nicky Onstenk
// Director of Photography
Martijn van Broekhuizen, NSC
// Editor
Xander Nijsten
// Production Design
Tiana Gordon
Cheryl Marion
// Casting Director
Judy JK Lee
// Costume Design
Carmen Thompson
// Hair & Make-up
Samantha Dempsey
Marly van de Wardt
// Sound Mixage
Coby Degroot
Simone Galavazi
// Sound Design
Marco Vermaas
// VFX Supervisor
Randy van der Weide
// Post-production Supervisor
Neeltje van der Heijden
// Original Soundtrack by
Minco Eggersman
// Distributors
Gusto Entertainment (Benelux)
Elevation Pictures (Canada)
// Dutch Public Broadcaster
EO
// Funds/ financers
Netherlands Film Fund
Telefilm Canada
Eurimages
MEDIA Creative Europe
Creative B.C. Fund
NL Film Production Incentive
CoBO