We watched this movie, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, last night. It was filmed on location in Iqualuit by an Inuit film company.
Amazing production values. Amazing storytelling. I loved the way it moved slowly but was not boring at all. Totally in Inuktitut. And totally Inuit actors and film crew. The production company is 75% Inuit owned. 
Check out the walrus tooth necklace.
Reminded me so much of reading about Farley Mowat’s Caribou eaters, although the caribou eaters would have said they’re nothing like the Seal and Walrus hunters.
These people were totally living the original primal lifestyle. Lots of freshly killed seafood, game and the occasional bird in the form of seals, walrus, fish, caribou and ptarmigan. It also showed them eating eggs they had collected from nests. In the movie they ate some berries in the summertime but other than that they stayed away from vegetable matter, not that any was really available in the area. I also noticed they didn’t eat any seaweed even though there was plenty of that around. Hmmm.
I can’t wait to see Ce Qu’il Faut Pour Vivre (The Necessities of Life) which stars the main actor, Natar Ungalaaq, from Atanarjuat, but is not directed or producted by Isuma. It’s about the outbreak of tuberculosis among First Nations people in Canada’s north in the 1950s.
