Our Land Our Truth

Made in collaboration with the Inuit Tungavingat Nunamini this film focuses on those dissident members of the Inuit community who rejected the agreement signed on November 11 1975 between the Northern Quebec Inuit Association the Québec and federal governments the James Bay Energy Corporation the James Bay Development Corporation HydroQuébec and the Grand Council of the Crees which took away Native rights to a territory of almost one million square kilometres By their words and actions the dissident Inuit of Povungnituk Ivujivik and Sugluk express their strong desire to retain their land and their traditions The filmmakers go into their homes on the ice and the sea to record firsthand the lives of these northern people