When Jerri Thrasher and Tamara Voudrach started screening their short film The Last Walk, they were just excited to show off their work.

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But between several film festivals in Canada, Germany and beyond, the film has earned a number of awards, including audience choice and best short film.

The project began in 2015 when the International Sami Film Institute and Nunavut Film Development Corporation partnered to create an alliance of filmmakers along the circumpolar North. Voudrach and Thrasher took part in a three-day writing workshop in Toronto, creating what would later become the script for The Last Walk.

Each of the five regions involved SA国际影视传媒� Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Sami Region of Norway, Greenland, and Alaska SA国际影视传媒� were to create 15-minute short films from the scripts adapted to their own cultures, with all five together combining to the length of a feature film.

Three have been made so far, with Thrasher and Voudrach leading the NWT version.

They shot the film over the course of one week in Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk last fall.

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The film compares and contrasts two sisters, one whoSA国际影视传媒檚 more rooted in her traditions and the other moving south for school and getting into trouble.

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A few changes had to be made during the shooting of the film, but Voudrach is happy with how it came out in the end.

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The film was shown at the Berlin International Film FestivalSA国际影视传媒檚 European Film Market, where it was screened with other Indigenous-made films as part of the BerlinaleNATIVE program.

The pair are looking to screen it in Inuvik soon and Tuktoyaktuk and Paulatuk in the new year.

Thrasher hopes to use this film and future work to raise awareness about issues young people face.

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