Shipbuilder

Directed by Stephen Surjik

With Kristjana Gunnars, Galen Wahlmeier and Sasha Konowal

This film recreates the true story of Tom Sukanen, an eccentric Finnish immigrant who homesteaded in Saskatchewan in the 1920s and 1930s. Sukanen spent ten years building and moving overland a huge iron ship that was to carry him back to his native Finland. The ship never reached water.