[IPSM] Inuit Film: “Before Tomorrow” Opens in Canada this Friday, March 2 7

[sarita at resist.ca]

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Date: Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:46 PM
Subject: “Before Tomorrow” Opens in Canada this Friday, March 2  7


Arnait Video Collective's first feature  BEFORE TOMORROW,  directed
by Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Piujuq Ivalu, will have its
theatrical release through Alliance Films this Friday, March 27.

The film will open in Montreal at the AMC Forum with English and the
Beaubien with French sub-titles; in Toronto at the Cumberland and in
Vancouver at the Tinseltown.

 Before Tomorrow,  garnered the prize for Best First Canadian Film at
its world premiere at last September s Toronto Festival and played at
this year s Sundance Festival. It was awarded First Prize at the
ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Grand Prize at the Native
American Film Festival in San Francisco, Best Feature Film at the
Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival; and named one of Canada s Top Ten
for 2008.

 Before Tomorrow  is the story of a woman facing with her grandson
the ultimate challenge to their humanity. It is the third feature
film from Igloolik-Isuma Productions and the first in collaboration
with Arnait, the women s video collective of Igloolik, following
 Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner  (2001) and  The Journals of Knud
Rasmussen  (2006). Based on the novel  Før Morgendagen  by Jørn Riel,
the film stars Madeline Piujuq Ivalu and her grandson Paul-Dylan
Ivalu. See: www.beforetomorrow.ca <http://www.beforetomorrow.ca/>

Contact: Lucius Barre lucius at rcn.com <mailto:lucius at rcn.com>
 +1-917-353-2268



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