The Sun at Midnight is a Canadian drama film, directed by Kirsten Carthew and released in 2016.
[1] The film stars Duane Howard as Alfred, a caribou hunter in the Canadian Arctic who befriends Lia (Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs), a rebellious teenager who has been sent to the area to live with her grandmother following the death of her mother.
[2] The film was shot in 2015 in Yellowknife and Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories.
[3] It premiered on September 25, 2016 in Fort McPherson,[2] before going on to screenings on the film festival circuit.
[7] It won two Leo Awards in 2017, for Best Picture Editing (Jamie Alain) and Best Musical Score (Rich Walters).