World Premiere
An Inuit mother and daughter, Kumaa’naaq and Marguerite, must negotiate the pressures of assimilation after relocating to a new life in the South in the 1930s. Based on a true story.
Supported by
Community Partner
Brenda Amakłak Putulik, Naomi-Ken Ullikata Natseck, Lindsay Robinson, Benjamin Blyth
Canada
2023
In English and Inuktitut with English subtitles
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Credits
Producer
Lindsay McIntyre, Katrina Beatty
Screenwriter
Lindsay McIntyre
Cinematography
Wesley Miron
Editor
Lindsay McIntyre, Ryan Westley
Original Music
Bret Parenteau
Director
Lindsay McIntyre
Lindsay McIntyre is an award-winning filmmaker of Inuit/mixed settler descent. With a long-standing practice of short experimental, documentary, and process-based films, she is stepping up to narrative with her first feature The Words We Can’t Speak (in development) which won the WIDC Feature Film Award (worth $250K). She is also a skilled Cinematographer (Ste. Anne, LAKE, The Governmental Films of Matthew Rankin), and has won awards for her work as Editor and Production Designer. She has an MFA in Film Production (Concordia) and is an Associate Professor of Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design on unceded Coast Salish territories.
Filmography: Nigiqtuq ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (The South Wind) (2023); Worth More Standing (2023); Ticket/Timber/Tree (2023); Seeing Her (2020); Stand By (2020)
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