Indigenous filmmaker (Inuit). NFB's special programs:.Cinéastes autochtones Competition. Agency - French program:.Documentary Studio / Montreal (Monde du travail).

Director, Bobby Kenuajuak ; producer, Nicole Lamothe ; script, Karina Goma ; photography, Stéphane Thibault, Martin F. Leblanc, Bobby Kenuajuak ; sound, Raymond Sabbah ; editing, France Dubé ; sound editing, Leopoldo Gutierrez ; mixing, Serge Boivin, Jean Paul Vialard ; music, Simon Carpentier.

Narration, Robert Watt, Bobby Kenuajuak.

Recorded 1999.

Bobby Kenuajuak was born in 1976 in the village of Puvirnituq on the shores of Hudson Bay in northern Quebec. He won a National Film Board contest for Indigenous filmmakers at the age of 23, which allowed him to learn his craft at the NFB's Montreal headquarters, where he spent 18 months producing this film. Shot during three seasons, Kenuajuak's documentary tenderly portrays village life and the elements that forge the character of his people: their history, the great open spaces and their unflagging humour. Though Kenuajuak appreciates the amenities of southern civilization that have made their way north, he remains attached to the traditional way of life and the land: its vast tundra, the sea teeming with Arctic char, the sky full of Canada geese. My Village in Nunavik is an unsentimental film by a young Inuk who is open to the outside world but clearly loves his village. With subtitles.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Opera Prima Award, 1999 Bronze Plaque Award - Category: Social Issues, 2001

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).