Breaths (Inuktitut Version)

20164 min 15 secFilm: Documentary

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Direction: Nyla Innuksuk

Production: Jon MontesDavid Christensen

Script: Nyla Innuksuk

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in cooperation with the National Arts Centre and the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation.

“The North is the place where I feel I’m completely myself.” In this evocative short, Inuit singer-songwriter and humanitarian Susan Aglukark weaves together stories of artistry, family, and belonging as she explores the complex cultural shifts of the last 50 years of Inuit life. Turning her lens on the turbulence of colonial transition, director Nyla Innuksuk examines the forces that shaped Aglukark’s voice and how that voice is now being translated for a new generation of Inuit artists.

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  • Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit) > Portraits
  • Music > Portraits
  • Intangible Culture & Literature > Biographies, Autobiographies Music & Dance
  • Indigenous Peoples: Canada > Inuit & Arctic Peoples (in Canada)

Credits


recipient
Susan Aglukark
writer
Nyla Innuksuk
director
Nyla Innuksuk
featuring
Susan Aglukark
Kathleen Ivaluarjuk Merritt
director of photography
aAron Munson
editing
Erika MacPherson
sound design
Christine Fellows
sound recordist
Micah Henry
camera assistant
Marcel Kreutzer
assistant editor
Marcel Kreutzer
online editing
Tony Wytinck
re-recording
Bruce Little
titles
Cynthia Ouellet
translation
Claude Dionne
Janet Tamalik McGrath
Suzie Napayok-Short
supervising producer
Stéphanie L'Écuyer
centre operations manager
Darin Clausen
administrator
Bree Beach
production coordinator
Faye Yoneda
Jasmine Pullukatt
technical coordinator
Hans Olson
producer
Jon Montes
executive producer
David Christensen