# Nyla Innuksuk

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Ep. 65: Indigenous Filmmakers - Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993) & Slash/Back (2022)

We are very happy to be belatedly celebrating National Indigenous History Month by watching two films from incredible Indigenous women in Canada! Liam selected the maddening documentary Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, directed by Alanis Obomsawin, while Ben selected the debut feature film fro…

Nyla Innuksuk -- Psycho

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What better film could we have featured for our 13th episode than Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic Psycho? We discuss this early example of the slasher genre with Nyla Innuksuk, whose excellent first first feature Slash/Back revolves around a group of 14-year old girls from a remote Arctic community…

Slash/Back - "Hunting is Patience"

Slash/Back - "Hunting is Patience" This week we discuss another wonderful project created by and starring Indigenous Talent - SLASH/BACK (2022). Writer/Director Nyla Innuksuk beautifully combines Indigenous lore with some of our favorite sci-fi horror tropes! Very reminiscent of The Thing and Annih…

Summer Blockbusters

Fifty years ago this summer, Jaws was released in the US. Directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the bestselling novel by Peter Benchley, the film - about a coastal resort town threatened by a great white stark at the busiest time of the year - was a groundbreaking box office phenomenon. Jaws ch…

Nyla Innuksuk - BONUS Throwback Interview!

On this Thursday bonus episode we are going to play the interview from episode 352 from January 2022 featuring filmmaker Nyla Innuksuk on the show to talk about her film slash/back which won the Grand Jury prize at SXSW. We talk with Nyla about making a sci-fi alien invasion feature in a completely…

How Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) brings Inuit storytelling to the big screen, and Broadway shows at the movies

Zacharias Kunuk’s films are legendary for the way they show the beauty of Canada’s North and the richness of Inuit culture. His latest film 'Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband)' is an epic love story, set four thousand years ago. Two artists from Igloolik, filmmaker Nyla Innuksuk and actor Zorga Qaunaq …

Spoiled Saturdays: Slash/Back

Nyla Innuksuk's 2022 film Slash/Back follows a group of Indigenous girls figuring out friendships, family and...how to fend off an alien invasion. Anney and Samantha delve into themes of culture, colonization, friendship and family. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Arctic Representation: A Conversation with Nyla Innuksuk

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A conversation with filmmaker, producer, and writer Nyla Innuksuk. Learn more about her work here: https://imaginenative.org/artists/nyla-innuksuk/ Read “On-Screen Protocols + Pathways: A Media Production Guide to Working with First Nations, Métis and Inuit Communities, Cultures, Concepts and Stori…

Nyla Innuksuk - Focusing on Inuit culture through virtual reality, the Marvel Universe and film making - Part 1

Nyla Innuksuk is a film director, writer, producer of film and virtual reality content. She is a Ryerson Film graduate, and CEO of Mixtape VR. The short horror film that Nyla produced and filmed in Nunavut, Kajutaijuq, was chosen as a Toronto International Film Festival top ten short. Nyla was also…

Nyla Innuksuk - Focusing on Inuit culture through virtual reality, the Marvel Universe and film making - Part 2

Part 2 of our two part interview with film director, writer, producer of film and virtual reality content, Nyla Innuksuk. In this episode we discuss the Arctic as a setting for film and incorporating Inuit myths, the use of virtual reality to tell stories, bringing the value of indigeneity to pro…