Screening at the Kuujjuaq town hall : Martha of the North

By Michel Patry

Tom Perlmutter, Government Film Commissioner and Chairperson of the National Film Board of Canada and Charlie Arngak, President of Avataq Cultural Institute

are pleased to announce that there will be presentations of the film

Martha of the North

In the mid-1950s, lured by false promises of a better life, Inuit families were displaced by the Canadian government and left to their own devices in the Far North.

At the Kuujjuaq Town Hall Free admission

In Inuktitut on June 7th 2010 at 8:30pm
with a Q&A with the director Marquise Lepage and the film’s main subject Martha Flaherty

In English on June 8th 2010 at 7:00pm

For more information on the film, visit NFB.ca/MarthaoftheNorth

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