Running With Wolves

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2009 FESTIVAL
51 min.
Filmmaker: Richard Matthews.
Biologist Gudrun Pflueger returns to the Canadian Rockies two years after being diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor. Her quarry is an elusive wolf named “Hope,” an alpha female Gudrun hasn’t seen any sign of since before she was diagnosed with cancer. Gudrun’s search for Hope leads her to a shy pack living deep in a thick forest near Banff Nat’l Park. Hunted as vermin by sportsmen and under constant pressure from encroaching humans, this pack of wary predators has learned to fear man to an extreme. Once an Olympic athlete, Gudrun struggles to return to the top fitness needed to track wolves in mountain terrain, and struggles to find “Hope” amongst these mainland wolves. Running with Wolves documents her struggles against cancer, the fate of Hope and the future of the Banff wolf pack.