Rapid change from traditional to modern life in Nunavut, like many post-colonial societies, has concentrated power, wealth and information in a few hands. Nipi examines fundamental questions of democracy, power and change in Nunavut and indirectly in Canada itself: in education, religion, gender, lifestyle, the distribution of economic development and the make-up and inner structure of the new leadership class. Nipi listens to Inuit leaders and elders, in their own voices, talking about leadership in the old way of life, and in the new.

Nipi is a part of the Unikaatuatiit (Story Tellers) Series.

DIRECTOR(S): Zacharias Kunuk

PRODUCER(S): Zacharias Kunuk, Norman Cohn

WRITER(S): Zacharias Kunuk

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Norman Cohn

EDITOR(S): Zacharias Kunuk

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Zacharias Kunuk, Norman Cohn

SCREENINGS & TELEVISION:

Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN)
Channel 24 Igloolik

YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 1999

DISTRIBUTOR INFORMATION: Isuma Distribution International c/o VTape, wandav [at] vtape [dot] org, +1.416.351.1317 fax-1509; info [at] isuma [dot] ca, +1.514.486.0707 fax-9851.

COUNTRY Canada

REGION: Nunavut

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