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Geek Tyrant
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Great Trailer For Widely Praised Documentary FOLKTALES Following Wilderness School For Teens and Sled Dogs — GeekTyrant
Magnolia Pictures has released a fantastic trailer for their documentary feature Folktales , from Academy Award-nominated filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, who previously made Jesus Camp , 12th & Delaware , Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You , One of Us , Dogs , and I Carry You With Me . The film's synopsis reads: 'In Norse mythology, the three "Norns" are powerful deities who weave the threads of fate and shape humans' futures. Today, Pasvik Folk High School in northern Norway aims to produce a similar life-changing effect on its students. 'Folktales tells the timely and heartwarming story of teenagers who choose to spend an unconventional 'gap year' learning to dog sled and survive the Arctic wilderness, in hopes of finding connection and meaning in the modern world. 'Guided by patient teachers and a yard full of heroic Alaskan huskies, they discover their own potential and develop deep relationships with the land, animals and humans around them. 'Through intimate verité storytelling and exhilarating cinematography, Ewing and Grady examine humans on the cusp of adulthood, finding themselves at the edge of the world.' This looks like a beautifully made film, and it's really cool that it covers a place most of us have never heard of. The dog aspect of the pic is just the cherry on top. I love dogs, and these ones look like they truly enhance the lives of the kids they connect with. Check out the trailer below, and watch Folktales in select US theaters on July 25th.
Washington Post
13-05-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
Dan Seavey, patriarch of Alaska mushing family who raced in the first Iditarod, dies
Dan Seavey, who helped organize the first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and whose son and grandson have each won the famous Alaska race multiple times, has died. He was 87. The Minnesota native, who competed in the first two Iditarod races in 1973 and 1974, was out helping tend to his dogs shortly before he died last Thursday, his son Mitch Seavey said. Dan Seavey had been adamant in his later years about remaining at the south-central Alaska home in Seward he had moved his family to decades earlier, the younger Seavey said.
