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Angotee: Story of an Eskimo Boy
195331 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Douglas Wilkinson
Production: Michael Spencer
Script: Douglas Wilkinson
The time is 1953 and the place is the eastern Arctic. This film follows the events of a man's growth from birth to maturity. Here we see how an Inuk baby is born, how the young child is treated, how he learns the arts of the hunter, grows to manhood and marries.
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Subject categories
- Fishing and Hunting Industries > Arctic HuntingHuntingSeal and Walrus Hunt
- Families > ChildrenIndigenous Families
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit) > ChildrenNorthwest Territories, Nunavut and YukonPortraitsTraditional way of life
- Children and Youth > Indigenous Youth
- Indigenous Studies > Identity/Society
- Family Studies/Home Economics > Parenting
Credits
- director
- Douglas Wilkinson
- script
- Douglas Wilkinson
- producer
- Michael Spencer
- cinematography
- Jean Roy
- sound
- Clarke Daprato
- editing
- Victor Jobin
- sound editing
- Kenneth Heeley-Ray
- music
- Maurice Blackburn
Awards
- First Award - Category: Non-TheatricalGenie Awards
- Cup of the Tourist Office - Category: Films on ExplorationInternational Festival of Mountain and Exploration Films Citta di Trento
- Certificate of MeritInternational Film Festival