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CANADIAN TELEVISION FUND

2010-0050

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Isuma Productions

Director/producer/script/editing, Zacharias Kunuk; producer, Stéphane Rituit; executive producer/editing, Norman Cohn; director of photography, David Poisey; sound, Henry Naulaq; music, Dora Pudluk; Naomie Pudluk; Tudjaat

Simeonie Amarualik, Larry Audlaluk, Lizzie Amagoalik, John Amagoalik, Dora Pudluk, Emily Idlout, Elisapee Nutara, Johnny Inukpuk, Markoosie Patsaq, Matrha Flaherty, Renee Flaherty

Zacharias Kunuk tackles the subject of the High Arctic Relocation from an Inuit point of view in the documentary EXILE. In 1953, Inuit families were forcibly relocated to the uninhabited and inhospitable high arctic, 1500 kilometres north of their traditional homeland of Nunavik, in northern Québec. The goal of the move was to extend Canadian claims of sovereignty to Ellesmere Island. As a result, Inuit people were forced to endure the pain of families torn apart and many years of hardship. With devastating first-person accounts of survival, the trail of broken promises and shameful practices of the government and the RCMP, this powerful documentary captures the long-standing effects of these events from the perspectives of the people who were forced to endure them. <46:45>

Inuktitut

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Igloolik Isuma Productions ; Kunuk Cohn Productions, 2008

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur