A mining company walks into an Inuit community. What happens next will actually matter.
Through interviews with Inuit across Nunavut, and documentation of a three-year community hearing process during the COVID pandemic, award-winning filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk explores what meaningful consultation in the 21st century means within the context of a large-scale mining expansion on Baffin Island.
Direction
Kunuk lets communities speak for themselves. Revolutionary concept, apparently.
Cinematography
Baffin Island: gorgeous, unforgiving, and about to be hollowed out.
Director
Zacharias Kunuk
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kunuk shot this during COVID when mining companies accelerated applications while communities were locked down and unable to organize. The pandemic wasn't just backdrop — it was strategy.
The 'duty to consult' is Canadian law, but this film asks: consulted about what? On whose timeline? With what power to say no?
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