[Indigsol] This Wed - Film: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change

[ipsmo at riseup.net]

What: Film Screening of Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change

Where: Wednesday, August 14, 7PM

Where: 251 Bank Street, 2nd Floor (Octopus Books in Centretown)

—- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/162833223900286/


Nunavut-based director Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat The Fast Runner) and
researcher and filmmaker Dr. Ian Mauro (Seeds of Change) have teamed up
with Inuit communities to document their knowledge and experience
regarding climate change. This new documentary, the world’s first
Inuktitut language film on the topic, takes the viewer “on the land” with
elders and hunters to explore the social and ecological impacts of a
warming Arctic.

Join the Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement Ottawa (IPSMO), Cinema
Politica, and Octopus Books for a screening and discussion of “Inuit
Knowledge and Climate Change). A member of IPSMO will facilitate a
discussion after the film.

This event is “Pay What You Can (Nobody is turned away)”



More about the movie:
The impact of climate change in Canada is discussed by those at its front
lines. In this historic documentary by the legendary Isuma Productions,
Inuit people speak first-hand about how their landscape is changing, how
the sky has turned colour and if the polar bear really is endangered.
Their insight – borne from centuries of shared knowledge – reveals a deep
intimacy with their environment and convincingly challenges mainstream
media accounts of climate change. Unsettling accounts of new flora,
thawing permafrost and dwindling ice point directly to the truth that
climate change has become a human rights issue for many Indigenous people.


More about IPSMO:
IPSMO is a grassroots organization that directly supports indigenous
peoples in diverse struggles for justice. We also work within communities
to challenge the lies and half-truths about indigenous peoples and
colonization that dominate Canadian society. The organization is open to
both indigenous and non-indigenous people, and focuses on local and
regional campaigns.


IPSMO website: http://www.ipsmo.org
Octopus Books website: http://octopusbooks.ca/

Cinema Politica website for the film:
http://www.cinemapolitica.org/film/inuit-knowledge-and-climate-change