Inuuvunga: I Am Inuk, I Am Alive

Inuuvunga I Am Inuk, I Am Alive is a joint 58minute 2004 documentary about Inuit high school students in Inukjuak, Quebec, Nunavik Quebec, documenting their final year in the high school.

Hockey, hip hop, hunting and midnight SkiDoo rides. Welcome to Inukjuak. Its the final year of high school for eight teens at Innalik school in this remote town in northern Quebec. These eight students, through the initiative of NFB, have been selected to document this pivotal year of their lives. To teach them some basics, the NFB has dispatched filmmakers Daniel Cross and Mila AungThwin. The result of their collaboration is Inuuvunga, a vibrant and utterly contemporary view of life in Canadas North. The students use their new film skills to address a broad range of issues, from the widening communication gap with their elders to the loss of their peers to suicide. Throughout, they reveal an unusual and fascinating mix of southern and northern cultures. Seamless and startling, Inuuvunga paints a rich portrait of coming of age in an Inuit town and helps to dispel the myths of northern isolation and desolation. Instead, we discover a place where hope and strength overcome struggle.

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