THE SNOW WALKER

Charles Martin Smith

Canada, 2003, 102 mins.

In Attendance: Actor, Annabella Piagattuk

The Snow Walker is a grand adventure that pits man against nature. Adapted from Walk Well My Brother by celebrated Canadian author Farley Mowat, The Snow Walker is written and directed by Charles Martin Smith, who starred in the classic adaptation of Mowat's novel, Never Cry Wolf.

Set in the far North in 1953, maverick bush pilot Charlie Halliday (Barry Pepper from Saving Private Ryan) is convinced by an Inuit family to transport their tubercular daughter to a hospital in Yellowknife in exchange for rare walrus tusks.

Shortly afterward the plane crashes on the tundra …