THE EXPERIMENTAL ESKIMOS Trailer

In the early 1960s the Canadian government conducted an experiment in social engineering. Three twelve-year-old Inuit boys were separated from their families and were sent South to be educated in white schools. This documentary is the untold story of how an attempt at assimilation not only changed the boys, but changed a nation, establishing aboriginal rights in Canada and around the world.

Screenings and Awards:
Hot Docs Documentary Festival (World Premiere)
Dreamspeakers Film Festival
Alianait Arts Festival, Iqaluit (Nunavut Premiere)
DocFest Stratford
Cinema Politica (Canada, Indonesia, Sweden)
Leipzig DOK Festival, Germany
Regent Park Film Festival, Toronto
Global Visions Film Festival, Edmonton
Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival (Prize Winner: Best Feature Documentary)
Ambulante Film Festival 2010, Mexico
Docs for Schools - Hot Docs 2010
DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver
Yorkton Film Festival, Saskatchewan (Prize Winner: NFB Kathleen Shannon Award)
Montreal First Peoples' Festival Présence autochtone
Directors Guild of Canada (Prize Winner: Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary)
Kumu Art Museum, Estonia
Yellowknife Film Festival
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Northern National Event, Inuvik, Northwest Territories

"Director Barry Greenwald reunites Peter Ittinuar, Zebedee Nungak, and Eric Tagoona to reflect upon the profound impact the experiment had on their lives and identities as Inuit people. The men candidly recount their stories in this bold and thought-provoking film about assimilation, empowerment, and the triumph of the human spirit."
-- Michele Latimer, Hot Docs

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Aboriginal
• Aboriginal Rights
• Arctic
• Canadian Arctic
• Eskimo
• First Nations
• Inuit
• Native Canadian
• Native American
• Indigenous
• Land Claims
• Nunavik
• Nunavut
• Ambulante 2010
• Gira Ambulante 2010
• Ambulante Gira de Documentales
• Cinema Politica
• DOK Leipzig
• Hot Docs
• DOXA Documentary Film Festival
• Northern National Event
• NNE
• Barry Greenwald
• Greenwald

[ExperimentalEskimos]

If you appreciate THE EXPERIMENTAL ESKIMOS documentary please vote for it on the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDb) at: imdb.com/title/tt1414861/

[ExperimentalEskimos]

The documentary, two of the experimental eskimos, and the film's director participated at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's Northern National Event, in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, June 2011.

[ExperimentalEskimos]

Pleased to announce that THE EXPERIMENTAL ESKIMOS has won the Directors Guild of Canada's "Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary".

[culturegal]

I saw this documentary at the Hot Docs festival. Beautifully made. An inspiring and deeply moving film.

[Ininaa100]

if it's not going to be done in my generation.i have my son standing behind me.who will take up the fight with your sons & your sons sons....

[merryprankster60]

yes, excellent film ... i saw it at imagineNATIVE film festival in Toronto ... another film to see on this subject is "Martha of the North" ...

[christiantapatai]

0:43 that's my great uncle eric tagoona

[kilunore]

I love this documentary! It makes me cry...

[whattheheckevr]

A Great Spirit

[k364]

I whole heartedly recommend you see this film. It is a great historical document of Canadian bureaucracy and the tales of three Eskimo boys who become great men. Men who were integral to incredibly important changes in Canadian Aboriginal law. Constitutional changes.

It is well filmed, well edited and is an excellent starting point for discussion.

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