My Village in Nunavik: little-known film celebrated Inuit past and future [Video]

*** This is the last episode in our four-part series called Another Country: Change and Resilience in Nunavik.***

In his proposal for his first documentary film, Bobby Kenuajuak was single-minded about his aim: to change the narrative about his land and about Inuit people.

Kenuajuak was just shy of 22 years old at the time, and had grown up in Puvirnituq, a young Inuit village on the Eastern shore of Hudson Bay, a place where he learned in his formative years to embrace both tradition and modernity at once. “I want to try to convince a person from the South that a small village in the North is not sad and isolated but that on the contrary, nature is magnificent and there are many activities to practice,” he wrote, according to documents held in the National Film Board’s Institutional Archives.

According to the same documents, Kenuajuak wanted to call the film: Puvirnituq, Quebec: Another Country.

In 1999, Kenuajuak did ultimately make …