 Filming a scene for “Qimmit: A Clash of Two Truths”
Photo: Peter Ikaluqjuak
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THE QUEST marks a new chapter in Piksuk’s life. Making a television series in HD with this companion website and a video game is a new experience for our team, and a pioneering effort in Nunavut’s film and video production industry. That we can promote Inuit and Arctic culture – traveling with dogs – through leading-edge technology like this is a great opportunity filled with promises for the future.
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 Mike Jaypoody in Clyde River editing room.
Photo: Dave Delouchery
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Appropriately, our company takes its name after a dog that belonged to Joelie Sanguya, when he was a boy on the land on the north-east coast of Baffin Island. Joelie and his partners Charlotte DeWolff and Ole Gjerstad founded Piksuk Media in 2005 – the first year Joelie raced his team in the Nunavut Quest.
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 Piksuk crew near Clyde River.
Photo: Peter Ikaluqjuak
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Our first documentary was THE MYSTERY OF ARQIOQ, 2008, co-produced with the Inuit Communications Systems Ltd for APTN. Recently we released QIMMIT: A CLASH OF TWO TRUTHS, a feature-length documentary about the mass slaughter of Inuit sled dogs in the 1950s and 60s. That film was co-produced with the National Film Board for broadcasters APTN and Radio-Canada.
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 Filming near Kimmirut.
Photo: Billy Akavak
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Training Inuit video-makers is an important part of our mission. We have established a close working relationship with the Ilisaqsivik Family Wellness Centre in Clyde River, and that has allowed us to undertake ambitious projects of versioning other series into Inuktitut. We have a number of other projects in the works and look forward to working with more partners as we develop those.
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