WINNER / Best Director - John Walker / Atlantic Film FestivalSearching for the Northwest Passage - The Story of Sir John FranklinIn 1845, celebrated British explorer Sir John Franklin, along with his crew of 128 men, set s... more »ail from England in search of a fabled passage west, which they believed would lead them to the riches of the Orient. None of them were ever seen again.A search party found no evidence of any crew or wreckage. The answer to the mystery was eventually solved by John Rae, a lone doctor travelling the Arctic Circle on foot. His findings were so horrific that those back home - including Sir John's widow, Lady Franklin, as well as Charles Dickens - waged a public campaign to discredit Rae and subsequently incriminate an entire nation of Northern Inuit people.« less