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Caribou Kayak
200449 min 24 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Michael Mitchell
Production: Sheila MurrayEd BarreveldMichael Stewart
Script: Michael Mitchell
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Otto Apsaktaun and Gino Akka are the last Inuit elders who know the secrets of making a unique Canadian boat built for the Arctic--the Netsilingmeot caribou-hunting kayak.
In the summer of 2002, they invited the youth of their hamlet of Kugaaruk, and a couple of southerners, to join them in a remote tundra camp. Here they build a pair of these beautiful kayaks. At Barrow Lake we witness a unique experiment in the transmission and preservation of a vanishing culture.
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Subject categories
- Crafts > BoatbuildingInuit Crafts
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit) > CraftsNorthwest Territories, Nunavut and YukonTraditional way of life
Credits
- writer
- Michael Mitchell
- director
- Michael Mitchell
- photographer
- Michael Mitchell
- creative producer
- Sheila Murray
- executive producer
- Ed Barreveld
- Michael Stewart
- editor
- Stephanie Duncan
- narrator
- Don Francks
- supervising sound editor
- Denise McCormick
- original music
- Rod Samuel
- sound editor
- Timothy Muirhead
- assistant sound editor
- Cheryl Smith
- foley artist
- Stefan Fraticelli
- foley recording mixer
- Stephen Muir
- on-line
- Fearless Films
- sound mix
- Richard Spence-Thomas
- narration recording
- Teresa Morrow
- kayak graphics
- Jake Mitchell
- participant
- Gino Akka
- Otto Apsaktaun
- Josie Angutinglinirk
- Jake Herro
- Shona Lalonde
- Robert Morris
- Clayton Apsaktaun