My Village in Nunavik

199946 min 57 secFilm: Documentary

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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.

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