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and released in 2013."Maybe only one chance for this one". ''

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'', January 10, 2013. The film was created as a series pilot for

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, which passed on the series but aired it as a television film. The film is set in the

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in 2045, after

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has made the area more temperate and ripe for economic development, and takes place in the newly developing frontier town of Borealis. Its central characters include

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as Vic Carbonneau, the owner of the town's airstrip and hotel; Michelle Harrison as Alison Freemont, a biologist; Patrick Gallagher as Taq, an

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tech entrepreneur; and

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as Dan Riordan, an American anthropology student. The cast also includes

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, Dewshane Williams,

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and

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. The film was written by

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and

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Awards

The film received three

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award nominations, for Best Direction in a Television Film or Miniseries (Frazee), Best Production Design in a Television Film or Mini-Series (Louise Middleton) and Best Sound Editing in a Television Film or Miniseries (Richard Calistan, Robert Hegedus, Kevin Howard, Nathan Robitaille, Craig MacLellan). It won three

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at the

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)."‘Bomb Girls,’ ‘Vikings’ win at the Canadian Screen Awards"

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, March 6, 2014. It was also nominated, but did not win, for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series (Frazee) and Best Production Design or Art Direction in a Fiction Program or Series (Bill Ives, Louise Middleton, Paul Healy).

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