Pitched at Below ZERO 2009
in Tromsø, Norway, to an international
board of commissioning editors
Vanishing Point - SYNOPSIS
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 of Arctic Canada. Setting out on hunting journeys in both her homeland and on Canada’s Baffin Island, she discovers that the two isolated groups of Inuit face similar 21st century challenges and that they share much in common. She also finds striking differences in their respective lifestyles and practices. And as inescapable change keeps pushing up into their lands, Navarana bears witness to what has been lost and what has been gained.
Vanishing Point has undergone two stages of development in a co-production arrangement with the National Film Board of Canada. In January 2011 the NFB confirmed a 100% production involvement with the project.
Status: completed
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Category: POV Feature Documentary
Language: English subtitled (Inuktun and Inuktitut voices)
Duration: 84 min
Directors: Stephen A. Smith & Julia Szucs
Producers: David Christensen, Julia Szucs
Executive Producer: David Christensen, National Film Board
Composer: John Welsman