"Seeing Her"
Directed by: Lindsay McIntyre
Visibly stunning, seeing her is a silent portrait of the filmmaker’s great-grandmother’s amauti. This analogue animation weaves the beaded textures that give space to the labour, skill, and memories that this amauti holds. (imagineNATIVE)
Experimental | 3 min | 2020 | Super 16mm
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"NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (The South Wind)"
Directed by: Lindsay McIntyre
Having left Nunavut with her mother Kumaa’naaq (koo-MAT-na) in 1938, young Marguerite must negotiate the unspoken pressures of being Inuk in her new life in the South. When an extraordinary letter arrives from home, Marguerite discovers what’s really expected of her. Based on a true story.
Fiction | 16 min | 2023 | Digital
Audio language: English, Inuktitut
Subtitles: English
Lindsay McIntyre
Filmmaker
Lindsay McIntyre is an award-winning filmmaker of Inuit and settler descent whose body of short documentaries, animations, and experimental films engage with themes of portraiture, place and personal histories. With a strong interest in DIY, alternative processes, analogue technologies, and making things more difficult, she also creates expanded cinema performances and sometimes makes her own handmade emulsion for 16mm film. After more than 40 short experimental and documentary films, she is stepping up to narrative with her first feature The Words We Can’t Speak (in development) which won the Women in the Director’s Chair coveted Feature Film Award (worth $250K). She is also a skilled Cinematographer (Ste. Anne by Rhayne Vermette, LAKE by Alex Lazarowich, Films Gouvernementaux by Matthew Rankin), and has won awards for her work as Editor and Production Designer. She is a COUSIN Collective Fellow, a Media City Festival Chrysalis Fellow and she participated in WIDC Story & Leadership, Women in View: 5 in Focus, Whistler Screenwriters Lab and Tricksters & Writers. She has been honoured with the REVEAL Indigenous Art Award (Hnatyshyn Foundation), the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Excellence in Media Arts (Canada Council) and many festival awards. Recent projects include the short drama NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (The South Wind) (2023), which won Best Short Fiction Film at imagineNATIVE 2023 and qualifies for the Academy Awards, the animated documentary Ajjigingiluktaaqtugut (We Are All Different) (2021), Where We Stand (2015), made on handmade emulsion, about the state of analogue film in the digital age, and a monumental projection-mapping installation on the Vancouver Art Gallery about the legacy of residential schools, If These Walls (2019).
"Twice Colonized"
Directed by: Lin Alluna
Lived by: Aaju Peter
Renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter has led a lifelong fight for the rights of her people. But while launching an effort to establish an Indigenous forum at the European Union, Aaju finds herself facing a difficult, personal journey to mend her own wounds after the unexpected passing of her son.
In this “powerful exploration of cultural trauma” (The Film Stage), director Lin Alluna follows alongside Aaju Peter as she strives to reclaim her language and identity after a lifetime of whitewashing and forced assimilation.
Documentary | 91 min | 2023 | Digital
Audio language: English, Danish, Greenlandic, Inuktitut
Subtitles language: English
Aaju Peter
Lawyer, Activist
Aaju Peter is an ardent defender of the rights of Canada’s northern Indigenous people and issues related to sustainability and resources. In 2011 she received Canada's highest honor, the Order of Canada, and since then she has been called upon as an advisor in both EU and UN. It is Aaju’s first work as a writer, but her natural flair for storytelling and in-depth knowledge of the colonization in both Greenland and Canada has made it a natural choice.
Lin Alluna
Filmmaker
Lin Alluna expresses herself through international, character-driven documentaries that dissolves the limits of reality. With her films she aims to portray brave women who want to change the world, while cinematically exploring how to amplify their stories to an audience. Besides directing, she teaches filmmaking and is chair member at the Danish Film Director’s association. She’s a graduate of the prestigious National Film School of Denmark and an alumni/lab fellow at IDFAcademy, UnionDocs, DFI Outreach, Nordic Talents and Circle Doc Accelerator. Her debut feature “Twice Colonized” premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2023 and was the opening film at CPH:DOX 2023 and HOT DOCS 2023.
