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Martha of the North
20081 h 23 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Marquise Lepage
Production: Marcel Simard (Les productions Virage inc.)Johanne Bergeron (National Film Board of Canada)Yves BisaillonMonique Simard
Script: Marquise LepageMartha Flaherty
Produced by Virage in association with the National Film Board of Canada, with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada, the Film and Television Tax Credit - Gestion SODEC, the SODEC (Société de développement des entreprises culturelles - Québec), the Government of Canada (Tax Credit Program) and Rogers Documentary Fund.
Martha was only 5 when she and her parents were lured away from their Inuit
village. Along with a handful of other families, they were moved to Canada’s
most northerly island, Ellesmere, to ensure Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic.
They were told that game would be plentiful and life would be easy.
Instead, they discovered that the islands of the Arctic are among the least
hospitable to human life in the world. For years, they endured hunger and
extreme cold.
Deprived of the right to an education and a childhood, Martha had to
help her family survive. Yet she proved as resilient as the other people from
her community who appear in the film.
Martha of the North is the story of a journey and a
childhood spent in a new and unwelcoming land.
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Subject categories
- History - Canada - 1946-Present > Arctic Region
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit) > HistoryPortraitsRights and Land ClaimsWomen
- Women - Portraits > Indigenous WomenWomen in Crisis
- Ethics and Religious Culture > Ethical Values
- Family Studies/Home Economics > Family Diversity and Challenges
- Geography > Human GeographyThe Arctic
- Civics/Citizenship > Human Rights
Credits
- writer
- Marquise Lepage
- Martha Flaherty
- voice over writing
- Marquise Lepage
- director of photography
- René Sioui Labelle
- sound recordist
- Poasie Joamie
- Chantal Rhéaume
- image editor
- Dominique Champagne
- Nancy Gendron
- assistant director
- Évangéline De Pas
- still photographer
- Évangéline De Pas
- participant
- Martha Flaherty
- Rynee Flaherty
- Mary Flaherty
- Peter Flaherty
- Larry Audlaluk
- John Amagoalik
- Dora Padluk
- Minnie Killiktee
- Myna Kiguktak
- Camille Lachance
- Pauline Akeeagok
- Rose Christensen
- Emily Kakkee
- Ashley Kalluk
- Rita Killiktee
- Samantha Killiktee
- Annie Mary
- Laurrie Noah
- Lydia Noah
- Jennifer Qaapik
- guide
- Jimmie Qaapik
- Looty Pijamini
- sculptor
- Looty Pijamini
- researcher
- Marquise Lepage
- Évangéline De Pas
- Martha Flaherty
- Julia Bennett
- archives research
- Évangéline De Pas
- translation
- Martha Flaherty
- Poasie Joamie
- Annie Ningeok
- Erica Pomerance
- Lucie Tapardjuk
- additional image editor
- Nancy Gendron
- Mirenda Ouellet
- voice-over
- Elisapie Isaac
- Kathleen Fee
- Brett Waxon
- original music
- Elisapie Isaac
- musician
- Roger Miron
- throat chant
- Pauline Akeeagok
- Martha Flaherty
- online editor
- Claude Collins
- computer graphics designer
- Dominic Audy
- Philippe Raymond
- sound post-production coordinator
- Claude Beaugrand
- sound engineer
- Claude Beaugrand
- dialogue editor
- Francine Poirier
- foley artist
- Lise Wedlock
- mixer
- Luc Boudrias
- Hans Laitres
- development director
- Stéphanie Verrier
- administrator
- Sylvie Desrosiers
- Johanne Dubuc
- technical coordinator
- Richard Cliche
- production coordinator
- Christine Dugas
- Noreen Bélanger
- Catherine Lachance
- line production
- Isabelle Fortier
- producer
- Marcel Simard
- associate producer
- Johanne Bergeron
- Yves Bisaillon
- executive producer
- Monique Simard
- director
- Marquise Lepage