Amka
One With a Friendly Spirit
With Polar Explorer Lonnie Dupre
It has been 21 years since Lonnie Dupre and John Hoelscher completed the first and only circumnavigation of Greenland, a 5,000-mile non-motorized journey completed by dog team and kayak.
In 2022, Dupre went back to Northwest Greenland to film the polar Inuit culture, traveling from village to village by dog team. Dupre reconnected with his past polar Inuit friends to find out how their culture has changed due to global warming over the last two decades.
The polar Inuit and their sled dogs are unsung heroes of countless Arctic expeditions. Their ingenuity and innovation through trial and error and creative ways of improvising have always amazed Dupre on past expeditions.
The polar Inuit people make it seem easy to live in a place that otherwise appears inhospitable to us. Their traditions have been passed on for thousands of years. By dressing in furs and by forming a symbiosis with their sled dogs, they managed to live off the land, completely in tune with their environment of ice and snow. These people are not run by a clock; they do things when the time seems right.
– Lonnie Dupre
WATCH THE FILM TRAILER HERE: AMKA: ONE WITH THE FRIENDLY SPIRIT
FILM DETAILS
The Amka film was produced by Lonnie Dupre and directed and filmed by Eva Capozzola, with additional cinematography by Josefin Kuschela.
Supported by Rolex as part of its Perpetual Planet Initiative.
For more information and updates:
LonnieDupre.com, kendalmountainfestival.com