Angakuksajaujuq: The Shaman’s Apprentice (2021) Director: Zacharias Kunuk 20 minutes
An animated adaptation of a traditional story, from the Qikiqtaaluk (North Baffin) Region of Nunavut, Angakuksajaujuq:
The Shaman’s Apprentice follows a young shaman ( Lucy Tulugarjuk) in training who must face her first test—a trip to the underground to visit Kannaaluk, The One Below, who holds the answers to why a community member has become ill. Also featuring Madeline Ivalu as Ningiuq Angakkuq and Jacky Qrunnut as Young Man.
CO-PRODUCED BY
Taqqut Productions is an Inuit-owned film production company located in Iqaluit, NU. Taqqut is committed to bringing the stories of the North to the world. The company’s eleven short films have screened at festivals in eighteen countries and have won over twenty-five international awards, including the 2020 Best Animated Short Canadian Screen Award for Giant Bear (2018). The second season of Taqqut’s preschool series Anaana’s Tent premiered on APTN in early 2020. Learn more at: taqqut.com
Kingulliit Productions Inc., an Inuit-owned multimedia production company based in Igloolik, NU and founded in 2010. Kingulliit produces independent Inuktitut-language films and TV from the Inuit point of view, while recognizing the importance of new media and innovative technologies to the future of communications in the North in the
21st century. Past projects include Inuit Cree Reconciliation (2013), Maliglutit - Searchers (2016), Hunting With My Ancestors (2017) and One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (2019). Learn more at: isuma.tv/kingulliit-productions
As the funding agency for the screen industry in Nunavut, the Nunavut Film Development Corporation (NFDC) has provided support to more than 100 productions and creators since its founding in 2004. This year brings two new exciting films coming to theatres soon, and a television project in development from a newly established production company in Iqaluit, NU.