''Kabloonak'' (Inuktitut for 'White Person') is a Canadian drama film, directed by Claude Massot and released in 1994.
["Kabloonak captures the North". '']Montreal Gazette
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'', September 16, 1994.
Plot
The film is about the making of ''
Nanook of the North
''Nanook of the North'' is a 1922 American silent film that combines elements of documentary and docudrama/docufiction, at a time when the concept of separating films into documentary and drama did not yet exist. In the tradition of what would ...
'', a 1922 film about an
Inuk
Inuit (singular: Inuk) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and Subarctic regions of North America and Russia, including Greenland, Labr ...
called Nanook and his family in the
Canadian Arctic
Northern Canada (), colloquially the North or the Territories, is the vast northernmost region of Canada, variously defined by geography and politics. Politically, the term refers to the three territories of Canada: Yukon, Northwest Territories a ...
.
Cast
The film's cast includes
Charles Dance
Walter Charles Dance (born 10 October 1946) is an English actor. He is known for playing intimidating, authoritarian characters and villains. Dance started his career on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) before appearing in film an ...
as producer and director
Robert J. Flaherty
Robert Joseph Flaherty, (; February 16, 1884 – July 23, 1951) was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, '' Nanook of the North'' (1922). The film made his reputati ...
, Adamie Inukpuk as Nanook,
Bernard Bloch as Thierry Malet, and
Natar Ungalaaq
Natar Ungalaaq (Inuktitut syllabics: ᓇᑕᕐ ᐅᖓᓛᖅ, born 1959) is a Canadian Inuk actor, filmmaker and sculptor whose work is in many major collections of Inuit art. Before playing the lead roles in '' Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner'' (2001) ...
as Mukpullu.
Production and release
The film was shot in
Siberia
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and the
Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories is a federal Provinces and territories of Canada, territory of Canada. At a land area of approximately and a 2021 census population of 41,070, it is the second-largest and the most populous of Provinces and territorie ...
.
["New movie recalls 1922 cinema classic Nanook of the North". ]Canadian Press
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, August 25, 1994.
It premiered at the
Montreal World Film Festival
The Montreal World Film Festival (), commonly abbreviated MWFF in English or FFM in French, was an annual film festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1977 to 2019.[François Protat
François Protat (1945 – January 18, 2019) was a Canadians, Canadian cinematographer, who won the Genie Award for Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Achievement in Cinematography, Best Cinematography at the 7th Genie Awards ...]
received a
Genie Award
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nomination for
Best Cinematography
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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at the
15th Genie Awards
The 15th Genie Awards were held on December 7, 1994 to honour Canadian films released in 1993. Actor Graham Greene hosted the ceremony.
Building on the success of its Genie specials of the last two years, the academy and the CBC produced two show ...
in 1994 for his work on the film.
["Genie Award nominations". '']Toronto Star
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...
'', October 20, 1994.
Charles Dance won the award for "Best Actor" at the Paris Film Festival 1994 for this film, and Claude Massot was awarded a "Special Jury Prize". At the Montréal World Film Festival 1994, Jacques Loiseleux won for "Best Artistic Contribution", and François Protat for "Photography". At the Gijón International Film Festival 1994, Claude Massot won three awards, for "Best Director", the "Grand Prix Asturias" (for "Best Feature"), and a "Special Prize of the Young Jury".
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1994 films
1994 drama films
Canadian drama films
English-language Canadian films
Films about Inuit in Canada
Films about films
Films shot in the Northwest Territories
Inuit films
1990s English-language films
1990s Canadian films
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