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In a feature documentary, Silakut, filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk talks to people from the five Northern Baffin Communities affected by the proposed expansion of the Mary River Mine.

ImagineNATIVE Protocols Panel with Zacharias Kunuk, October 24th, 2019 in Toronto, Ontario. 

Members from the five affected communities of the Mary River Mine expansion meet to disscuss the future of their communities. Accompanying this discussion are storytelling, drum dancing and singing . Sewing and making bannock, elders also invite us into their tents and show us their tradional life.

Filming live from the floe edge as the traditional activities of seal hunting and seal skinning are carried out.

Members from the five affected communities of the Mary River Mine expansion meet to discuss the future of their communities. They play string games and share stories.

Silakut: Live from the Floe Edge May 8th, 2019 Night

For our first "Slow TV" show, Simeoni Qaunaq shows us how he gets his dog team ready, with some help from Bailey Ammaq. 

Host: Zacharias Kunuk

Guests: Theo Ikummaq, Francis Piugattuk, David Aqqiaruq, Joanasie Kigutaq

Translators: Cherylu Piugattuk, Marcy Siakuluk

For this first episode of Silakut, Zacharias invites four Igloolik residents to discuss concerns related to the Baffinland Mary River iron ore mine, located in north Baffin Island.

 Zach builds a totem pole

Editing: Maia Iotzova

 Zach Kunuk visits Haida Gwaii

Editing: Maia Iotzova

 Zach seal hunting

Editing: Maia Iotzova

This film project will focus on a story about Inuit being removed from a traditional settlement in the 1960's. When the DEW line was being created, a group of engineers and military people came into a small Inuit village and put everyone on a plane and then flattened their community to make room for a communication tower.… Uqalimakkanirit