Inuuvunga = I am Inuk, I am alive / National Film Board of Canada presents ; director, Bobby Echalook [and 10 others] ; producer, Pierre Lapointe.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Echalook, Bobby, film director.

Lapointe, Pierre, film producer.

National Film Board of Canada, production company, distributor.

Language:

English

Inuktitut

Subjects (All):

High school students--Québec (Province)--Inukjuak.

High school students.

Inuit youth--Québec (Province)--Inukjuak--Social life and customs.

Inuit youth.

Manners and customs.

Inukjuak (Québec)--Social life and customs.

Inukjuak (Québec).

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (58 min.) : digital, sound, color

polychrome

Other Title:

I am Inuk, I am alive

Place of Publication:

[Montréal, Québec] : [Distributed by] National Film Board of Canada, [2018]

Language Note:

Predominantly Inuktitut dialogue with English subtitles.

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

Hockey, hip hop, hunting and midnight Ski-Doo rides. Welcome to Inukjuak. It's the final year of high school for eight teens at Innalik school in this remote town in northern Quebec. Through an initiative of the National Film Board, these eight students have been selected to document this pivotal year of their lives. To teach them some basics, the NFB has dispatched filmmakers Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin. The result of their collaboration is Inuuvunga, a vibrant and utterly contemporary view of life in Canada's North. The students use their new film skills to address a broad range of issues, from the widening communication gap with their elders to the loss of their peers to suicide. Throughout, they reveal an unusual and fascinating mix of southern and northern cultures. Kids listen to hip-hop music and engage in traditional fox trapping. A schoolroom floor is the scene of the gutting of a freshly killed seal. Seamless and startling, Inuuvunga paints a rich portrait of coming of age in an Inuit town and helps to dispel the myths of northern isolation and desolation. Instead, we discover a place where hope and strength overcome struggle.

Participant:

Participants, Lucassie Echalook [and 7 others].

Credits:

Sound editor, Marco Fania ; foley artist, Chris Piggins ; sound re-recording, Geoffrey Mitchell.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally produced by: National Film Board of Canada, ©2004; previously released in 2005.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 20, 2018).

Publisher Number:

nf-inuu Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.