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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General 

Alien invasion hits community in Arctic Canada in filming of sci-fi movie

CBC News
Posted: Monday, July 29, 2019 at 14:51
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Teen girls are fighting against an alien invasion in the first feature movie to ever be filmed in Pangnirtung, Nunavut.

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Culture Culture (Norway) General Norway 

Walt Disney Animation Studios to release Saami-language version of “Frozen 2”

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at 09:37 — Last Updated: Friday, July 26, 2019 at 16:40
26 Comments

The sequel to the Walt Disney mega-hit film Frozen will also be available in the Saami language,  Walt Disney Animation

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La ville de Rovaniemi, en Finlande, 2011. (Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP)
Culture Culture (Finland) Finland General News 

Can Arctic Finland lure Hollywood producers?

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 11:12 — Last Updated: Friday, April 20, 2018 at 11:02
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It’s becoming a more common sight: Hollywood location scouts travelling to Lapland to see if what they see and hear

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Culture Culture (Sweden) General News Sweden 

Film exploring racism against Sami wins big at Swedish film awards

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 09:30 — Last Updated: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 09:31
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“The Nile Hilton Incident” and “Sami Blood” took home gold at this week’s Guldbagge ceremony presented by the Swedish Film

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Culture Culture (Norway) General Norway 

Alaskans win Norwegian film contest

Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 16:23 — Last Updated: Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 23:52
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BETHEL — The challenge was to make a short film about the Arctic that went beyond icons like polar bears

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Culture Culture (Sweden) General Special Features Sweden 

Sami & indigenous film festival in Stockholm

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, December 10, 2015 at 16:16 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 16:38
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Dellie maa, Sweden’s first indigenous film festival, arrived in Stockholm on Wednesday after two previous editions in Umeå and Tärnaby,

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Culture Finland 

Thousands visit festival in Arctic Finland

Yle News
Posted: Monday, June 16, 2014 at 12:01
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The 29th Midnight Sun Film Festival held in Sodankylä, Lapland, wrapped up Sunday. Last minute cancellations of several high-profile filmmaker

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Map indicating where Inuit were relocated to in the 1950s. (Government of Canada)
Society Society (Canada) Special Features 

Web doc sheds light on Inuit relocation in Arctic Canada

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, May 16, 2014 at 15:38 — Last Updated: Friday, March 16, 2018 at 10:18
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The relocation of Inuit from northern Quebec to Canada’s High Arctic in the 1950s is one of the darkest episodes

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Lukasi Forrest, Travis Kunnuk and Marie-Helene Cousineau during filming of Uvanga. Cousineau says the group is now working on a feature film about suicide, prompted by the death of a friend a year and a half ago. (Uvanga Facebook page)
Canada Culture Culture (Canada) 

Nunavut filmmakers turn the lens on suicide

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 09:13 — Last Updated: Monday, August 25, 2014 at 18:41
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The co-founder of Arnait Video Productions in Igloolik, a community in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, says the group

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Scene from Aningaaq. (Warner Brothers)
Blog Culture Denmark/Greenland 

BLOG: Short film follow-up to “Gravity” connects the final and “last” frontiers

Mia Bennett
Posted: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 at 12:39
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Last month, audiences flocked to see the film Gravity, a thriller set in the final frontier of outer space. [Note:

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Feature

Wide shot of the Centennial Flame with the Parliament building behind
The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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