AMKA Film Trailer
Full length AMKA film at: • AMKA - One with a Friendly Spirit
A 40-minute documentary called ‘Amka’ (an Inuktun word meaning ‘one with friendly spirit’) releasing Fall 2024. The film conveys the link between sled dogs, Inuit, explorers, the fragility of Greenland, and the humble people that carved out special lives in a land of snow and ice.
It has been 21 years since Lonnie Dupre and John Hoelscher completed the first and only circumnavigation of Greenland; a 6,500-mile journey all non-motorized by dog team and kayak.
In 2022 Dupre went back to NW Greenland to document through film the Polar Inuit culture. Traveling from village to village by dog team, Dupre re-connected with his past polar Inuit friends to find out how their culture has changed as a result of climate change and modernization over the last two decades.