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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. Press Kit: requires PDF reader
DIRECTOR(S): Zacharias Kunuk
PRODUCER(S): Zacharias Kunuk, Stéphane Rituit
WRITER(S): Zacharias Kunuk
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: David Poisey
EDITOR(S): Zacharias Kunuk, Norman Cohn
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Norman Cohn
SCREENINGS & TELEVISION:
History Television
ImagineNative Film Festival
YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2009
DURATION: 48 minutes
GENRE: Documentary
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Igloolik Isuma Productions
LANGUAGE: Inuktitut with English s-t
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