Vanishing Point - THE FILM
“As the world melts under our feet, we must find the best way for our journey.”
Navarana is a Polar Eskimo elder who lives in the most remote corner of the planet, the northwest tip of Greenland. She is connected by blood to a group of Canadian Inuit because of a shaman’s migration journey across the frozen Arctic in the 1860s. Today, despite rapid technological and social changes, her people in Greenland proudly maintain and covet age-old customs. But Navarana wonders what life is like for her distant cousins in Arctic Canada. Setting out on hunting journeys in both her homeland and on Canada’s Baffin Island, she discovers that while these two isolated groups of Inuit share much in common, they also present strikingly different lifestyles and practices. At a time when her people are up against vast and inescapable challenges, Navarana looks for the way forward and considers what has been lost and what has been gained.
Vanishing Point is a POV documentary filmed in an observational, cinema vérité style. Its spoken languages are dialects of Inuktitut.
Public release: October, 2013
Category: POV Feature Documentary
Language: English subtitled (Inuktun & Inuktitut voices)
Directors: Stephen A. Smith, Julia Szucs
Writers: Stephen A. Smith, Julia Szucs & Marina Endicott
Narration: Navarana K’avigak’ Sørensen
Producers: David Christensen, Julia Szucs
Composer: John Welsman
Executive Producer: David Christensen
Produced by: The National Film Board of Canada
82 min 26 sec