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'Indian Road Trip' is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Allan W. Hopkins and released in 2020.[Alyssa Noel, [https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/must-reads/indian-road-trip-premieres-at-whistler-film-festival-where-it-all-started-3170055 "Indian Road Trip premieres at Whistler Film Festival, where it all started"]. 'Pique Newsmagazine', December 10, 2020.] The film stars Ajuawak Kapashesit and Paul C. Grenier as Hank and Cody, two aimless young First Nations cousins in British Columbia who are planning a road trip to Vancouver's Wreck Beach, but after being caught in a petty crime they are forced to drive elder Hetta Yellow-Fly (Dale Hunter) to make peace with her estranged sister.[[https://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/entertainment/new-comedy-shot-near-merritt-streaming-as-part-of-whistler-film-festival-1.24255471 "New comedy shot near Merritt streaming as part of Whistler Film Festival"]. 'Kamloops This Week', December 15, 2020.]
The cast also includes Evan Adams, Ross Munro, Nathan Alexis and Nathaniel Arcand.
A short version of the film was screened at the Whistler Film Festival in 2015, and was expanded into a feature film in 2016 after Hopkins was accepted into the festival's Screenwriters Lab.[Alyssa Hirose, [https://www.vanmag.com/New-Film-Indian-Road-Trip-Is-a-Wacky-Adventure-from-the-Rez-to-Wreck-Beach "New Film "Indian Road Trip" Is a Wacky Adventure from the Rez to Wreck Beach"]. 'Vancouver Magazine', December 1, 2020.] It was shot in the Merritt area in 2017; however, Hopkins' post-production funding fell through, and the film was left in limbo until he was able to secure new funding from the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.[
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The film premiered at Whistler in 2020, where Hopkins won the award for Best British Columbia Director and received an honorable mention for the Borsos Competition award for Best Screenplay.[Craig Takeuchi, [https://www.straight.com/movies/whistler-film-festival-2020-award-winners-from-bcs-indian-road-trip-to-newfoundlands-little "Whistler Film Festival 2020 award winners: From B.C.'s Indian Road Trip to Newfoundland's Little Orphans"]. 'The Georgia Straight', December 21, 2020.]
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