APTN and the National film Board (NFB), in collaboration with Eastern Labrador Arts Alliance, and the Labrador Friendship Centre will have a Free Screening Event on Monday, June 4th at 7:00 pm at the Lawrence O’Brien Arts Centre in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, NL.
If the Weather Permits is a short documentary that studies life in the village of Kangirsujuaq, Nunavik.
In this community on the edge of the Arctic Ocean, children’s laughter fills the streets while the old people ponder the passage of time.
They are nomads of the wide-open spaces who are trying to get used to the strange feeling of staying put.
While the teenagers lap up “southern” culture and play golf on the tundra to kill time, the elders are slowly dying, as their entire culture seems to fade away.
The second film being screened is Inuuvunga: I Am Inuk, I Am Alive.
Eight Inuit teens with cameras offer a vibrant and contemporary view of life in Canada’s North.
They also use their newly acquired film skills to confront a broad range of issues, from the widening communication gap between youth and their elders, to the loss of their peers to suicide.