There's a movie I saw about 24 years ago, I think. The movie is NOT Wild America (Wild America has some similar elements but is a completely different kind of film). The movie I'm looking for must be from the 90s or very late 80s.
It's about a family that goes on vacation north, almost to Canada, and the kids make a movie about a native myth about bears.

Here's the order or events as I remember:

>The dad worked at a photo developing place, and didn't like the job very much. He used to dream about being a film maker.
>His son (11 to 13 or so) meets his very weird friend, and they go home.
>The dad tells the kids about filming, shows them his old equipment, and then basically says "fick it, if you kids wanna make a movie, let's".
>So the whole family (dad, son, younger daughter, mom) plus the son's friend go north where they know people, and visit a place where a Native American works with bears.
>The Native American fellow tells them a legend about "mother bear", and they film him narrating. Then they film bears, and they edit it so the narration goes over footage of bears.
>Then they go back home, and show their movie to the community, and everyone loves it.

So, rings a bell?
There are some other details I remember, but I don't wanna make the OP too long. Minor details in the next post.

Thanks.