Sled Dogs (film)

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Sled Dogs
Directed by Fern Levitt
Produced by Fern Levitt
Arnie Zipursky
Edited byFrank Cassano
Production
company
Distributed bySearch Engine Films
Release date
  • December 3, 2016 (2016-12-03)(Whistler)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Sled Dogs is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Fern Levitt and released in 2016. [1] The film explores the Iditarod, raising allegations of animal cruelty among breeders, trainers and kennelers of the event's sled dogs. [2]

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Criticism

At least one dog keeper tried to obtain a legal injunction against the film's premiere at the Whistler Film Festival, alleging that Levitt had misrepresented footage of an unethical commercial pet breeder as being from a sled dog breeder. Keepers also defended practices such as chaining dogs and shooting injured dogs. [3] A sled dog operator also filed a similar complaint with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation after the film was broadcast on Documentary Channel in 2017, resulting in a report by CBC ombudsman Esther Enkin. [4]

Fern Levitt, producer/director of Sled Dogs with dogs, Brody (Husky) and Odin (Collie-Shepherd mix). Photo: Jackie Brown Fern Levitt with her dogs, Odin and Brody.jpg
Fern Levitt, producer/director of Sled Dogs with dogs, Brody (Husky) and Odin (Collie-Shepherd mix). Photo: Jackie Brown

Awards and nominations

The film received a Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards, for Best Editing in a Documentary (Frank Cassano), Documentary category, Alliance of Women Film Journalists, and won the World Documentary Award at the Whistler Film Festival. [5] [6]

References

  1. ↑ "Documentary 'Sled Dogs' exposes harsh realities of Iditarod". Los Angeles Times , October 5, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Review: ‘Sled Dogs’ Exposes Abuse of Working Animals". The New York Times , July 27. 2017.
  3. ↑ "Musher threatens legal action over Sled Dogs documentary". CBC News, November 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Point-of-View Documentaries | The Case of Sled Dogs". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, January 29, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Apr 08, 2018, page T8 - Valley Morning Star at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  6. ↑ Pat Mullen, "Canadian Screen Awards Preview: Picks and Foolish Predictions". Cinemablographer, March 11, 2018.


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