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Contemporary Inuit Filmmakers (Ages 12-14)

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This playlist showcases the extraordinary talents of Inuit filmmakers. The films weave together traditional Inuit customs, cultures, and histories through powerful storytelling. Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici. Films in This Playlist Include Angry Inuk Three Thousand Evan's Drum Being Prepared Shaman Nalujuk Night Arctic Song

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Contemporary Inuit Filmmakers (Ages 12-14)

This playlist showcases the extraordinary talents of Inuit filmmakers. The films weave together traditional Inuit customs, cultures, and histories through powerful storytelling.

Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici.

Films in This Playlist Include
Angry Inuk
Three Thousand
Evan's Drum
Being Prepared
Shaman
Nalujuk Night
Arctic Song

Playlist

  • Angry Inuk
    Angry Inuk
    Alethea Arnaquq-Baril 2016 1 h 22 min
    In her award-winning documentary, director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril joins a new tech-savvy generation of Inuit as they campaign to challenge long-established perceptions of seal hunting. Armed with social media and their own sense of humour and justice, this group is bringing its own voice into the conversation and presenting themselves to the world as a modern people in dire need of a sustainable economy.
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  • Three Thousand
    Three Thousand
    Asinnajaq 2017 14 min
    In this short film, Inuk artist Asinnajaq plunges us into a sublime imaginary universe—14 minutes of luminescent, archive-inspired cinema that recast the present, past and future of her people in a radiant new light.

    Diving into the NFB’s vast archive, she parses the complicated cinematic representation of the Inuit, harvesting fleeting truths and fortuitous accidents from a range of sources—newsreels, propaganda, ethnographic docs, and work by Indigenous filmmakers. Embedding historic footage into original animation, she conjures up a vision of hope and beautiful possibility.
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  • Evan's Drum
    Evan's Drum
    Ossie Michelin 2021 14 min
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  • Being Prepared
    Being Prepared
    Carol Kunnuk 2021 9 min
    As the global pandemic reaches into the Arctic Archipelago, Inuk filmmaker Carol Kunnuk documents how unfamiliar new protocols affect her family and community. Her vividly specific soundtrack juxtaposes snippets from local radio broadcasts, issuing health advisories in both Inuktitut and English, with the sweet sounds of children at play. A richly detailed and tender account of disruption and adjustment.
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  • Shaman
    Shaman
    Echo Henoche 2017 5 min
    This animated short tells the story of a ferocious polar bear turned to stone by an Inuk shaman. The tale is based on emerging filmmaker Echo Henoche's favourite legend, as told to her by her grandfather in her home community of Nain, Nunatsiavut, on Labrador's North Coast. Hand-drawn and painted by Henoche in a style all her own, Shaman is the first collaboration between the Labrador artist and the NFB.
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  • Nalujuk Night
    Nalujuk Night
    Jennie Williams 2021 13 min
    Nalujuk Night is an up close look at an exhilarating, and sometimes terrifying, Labrador Inuit tradition. Every January 6th from the dark of the Nunatsiavut night, the Nalujuit appear on the sea ice. They walk on two legs, yet their faces are animalistic, skeletal, and otherworldly. Snow crunches underfoot as they approach their destination: the Inuit community of Nain.

    Despite the frights, Nalujuk Night is a beloved annual event, showing that sometimes it can be fun to be scared. Rarely witnessed outside of Nunatsiavut, this annual event is an exciting chance for Inuit, young and old, to prove their courage and come together as a community to celebrate culture and tradition.

    Inuk filmmaker Jennie Williams brings audiences directly into the action in this bone-chilling black and white short documentary about a winter night like no other.
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  • Arctic Song
    Arctic Song
    Germaine Arnattaujuq ,  Neil Christopher , … 2021 6 min
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