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Nowhere Land

NATIVe - Indigenous Cinema 2017
© National Film Board of Canada / Alicia Smith
Rosie Bonnie Ammaaq bares her soul before the camera to share the sorrow she felt when forced to leave her true Inuit life on Baffin Island. It was not always easy, survival against all odds in the barren Arctic, but it was a life of freedom and independence. Her new surroundings in the town of Igloolik have crushed her spirit. She witnesses the demise of her real home, where ore-mining companies have set up a large-scale sacrifice of a millenary culture in exchange for short-sighted financial gains.
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by Rosie Bonnie Ammaaq Canada 2015 Inuktitut, English 15’ Colour Documentary form

Crew

Director Rosie Bonnie Ammaaq
Screenplay Rosie Bonnie Ammaaq, Alicia Smith
Cinematography Nate Smith
Music Christine Fellows
Sound Design Christine Fellows
Sound Christine Fellows
Executive Producer David Christensen

Produced by

National Film Board of Canada

Photos

Rosie Bonnie Ammaaq

© Alicia Smith National Film Board of Canada

Lives in Igloolik, Nunavut, with her partner and children. She works for the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation and has made two films with the National Film Board of Canada: Family Making Sleds and Nowhere Land.

Filmography

2012 Family Making Sleds 2015 Nowhere Land

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2017