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My Village in Nunavik
199946 min 57 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Bobby Kenuajuak
Production: Nicole Lamothe
Script: Karina Goma
Bobby Kenuajuak was born in 1976 in the village of Puvirnituq on the shores of Hudson Bay in northern Quebec. He won a National Film Board contest for Indigenous filmmakers at the age of 23, which allowed him to learn his craft at the NFB's Montreal headquarters, where he spent 18 months producing this film.
Shot during three seasons, Kenuajuak's documentary tenderly portrays village life and the elements that forge the character of his people: their history, the great open spaces and their unflagging humour.
Though Kenuajuak appreciates the amenities of southern civilization that have made their way north, he remains attached to the traditional way of life and the land: its vast tundra, the sea teeming with Arctic char, the sky full of Canada geese. My Village in Nunavik is an unsentimental film by a young Inuk who is open to the outside world but clearly loves his village. With subtitles.
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Subject categories
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit) > HistoryLabrador and QuébecTraditional way of life
- Social Studies > Communities in Canada/World
- Diversity > Identity
- Indigenous Studies > Identity/Society
- Nature & Ecological Knowledge > Animals, Traditional Use & Relationships with Animals
- Education > Indigenous Education – Canada
- Community > Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Intellectual Property
- Indigenous Peoples: Canada > Inuit & Arctic Peoples (in Canada)
Credits
- director
- Bobby Kenuajuak
- producer
- Nicole Lamothe
- script
- Karina Goma
- photography
- Stéphane Thibault
- Martin F. Leblanc
- Bobby Kenuajuak
- sound
- Raymond Sabbah
- editing
- France Dubé
- sound editing
- Leopoldo Gutierrez
- online editing
- Sylvain Desbiens
- Denis Pilon
- mixing
- Serge Boivin
- Jean Paul Vialard
- narration
- Robert Watt
- Bobby Kenuajuak
- music
- Simon Carpentier
Awards
- Opera Prima AwardFestival de cinéma et vidéo des peuples autochtones des Amériques
- Bronze Plaque Award - Category: Social Issues International Film and Video Festival