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Watch as ‘Evan’s Drum’ Dances to the Heartbeat of a Community

by Pat Mullen
March 21, 2022
Features

Watch the NFB short doc Evan's Drum, directed by Ossie Michelin, in which a mother and her son reconnect with the traditional art of Inuit drum dancing.

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Freeze Frame: Celebrating Uvagut TV

by Marc Glassman
January 10, 2022
Features/Photography

Celebrating Uvagut TV, the all-Inuktut station marks the first television station in Canada to broadcast entirely in an Indigenous language.

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Now Streaming: Being Prepared Spotlights Quarantine Life Up North

by Pat Mullen
November 23, 2021
Features

Watch Carol Kunnuk's COVID doc Being Prepared, which is now streaming for free from the National Film Board of Canada.

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John Houston’s ‘Atautsikut’ Should Not Be Left Behind

by Judy Wolfe
July 27, 2020August 28, 2021
Reviews

Atautsikut, Leaving None Behind (Canada, 60 min.) Dir. John Houston How do communities de-colonize? How do people free themselves from economic oppression? What happens when they succeed? In John Houston’s new film, Atautsikut,

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imagineNATIVE Review: ‘One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk’

by Pat Mullen
October 22, 2019August 27, 2021
Reviews

One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (Canada, 113 min.) Dir. Zacharias Kunuk One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk is a comedy of manners that is no laughing matter. The

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Review: ‘Bowhead Whale Hunting with My Ancestors’

by Pat Mullen
October 18, 2017November 6, 2021
Festivals/Reviews

Bowhead Whale Hunting with My Ancestors (Canada, 40 min.) Dir. Zacharias Kunuk, Carol Kunnuk   Zacharias Kunuk took audiences on a riveting hunt in the Arctic with 2001’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner.

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Review: ‘There is a House Here’

by Pat Mullen
September 8, 2017October 24, 2021
Reviews/TIFF

There is a House Here (Canada, 105 min) Dir. Alan Zweig Programme: TIFF Docs (World Premiere)   What are the roles and responsibilities of artists who want to explore stories of communities

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Our Complicated Romance with the North

by Vivian Belik
June 27, 2017January 8, 2022
Essays

It’s a frigid February evening in Whitehorse when Tanya Tagaq takes the stage. She’s in a black dress and still buzzing from her recent Polaris Prize win. “I just want to tell the children

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The POV Interview: Zacharias Kunuk and Natar Ungalaaq Talk ‘Maliglutit’

by Judy Wolfe Marc Glassman
October 19, 2016September 4, 2021
Interviews/TIFF

Zacharias Kunuk and Natar Ungalaaq's Maliglutit offers a visionary take on John Ford’s archetypal western The Searchers that harnesses the harsh landscape of the north as a new frontier.

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Why Are the Inuit So Angry?

by Judy Wolfe
July 6, 2016January 10, 2022
Essays/Features

More than three decades passed before an Inuk was able to make a feature film that showed a native perspective on the seal hunt. Alethea Arnaquq-Baril’s documentary Angry Inuk is that long-awaited

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