Feature
Documentary
Les Films de l’Isle - Arqsaniit Productions -
Ellsworth Productions © 2007
Directors
Lena Ellsworth
Qajaaq Ellsworth
Evie Mark
Tunu Napartuk
Writers
Louise Lemelin
Director of
Photography
Sylvestre Guidi
Producers
Ian Boyd
Bobby May
Qajaaq Ellsworth
Music
Robert M. Lepage
Festivals –
Prizes
SELECTION, Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois
Forum Unesco / Cuba
Présence Autochtone / Montréal
Planet in Focus / Toronto
Alianait Arts Festival / Iqaluit, Nunavut
In fifty years the Inuit have gone from the igloo to the internet. Today’s Inuit, be they from Nunavik or Nunavut, hold the key to their future and are in charge of their own societies. Evie Mark, Tunu Napartuk, Lena and Qajaaq Ellsworth, the Inuit directors of the documentary ‘Ullumi’, take a clear and critical look at the important challenges they, their children and their society faces in the development of their future. The importance of the Inukitut language, of education, of economic development and leadership, and of the right balance between tradition and moderniy are at their central preoccupations.