Vancouver 
Events Description
Producer Jonathan Frantz of Kingulliit Productions and Isuma Productions with the collaboration of Uvagut TV and Isuma Distribution International, is pleased to announce that Tautuktavuk (What We See), is screening in Vancouver at the VIFF Centre March 15th – 22nd, 2024. On Friday March 15th there will be a special pre-recorded Q&A with the filmmakers proceeding the film. Co-directed by Lucy Tulugarjuk (One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner) and Carol Kunnuk (Welcome to my Qammaq, Being Prepared), Tautuktavuk (What We See) was selected as a TIFF Canada’s Top Ten, won the Rödspoven Prize at Sweden’s Umeå Film Festival (UEFF), the TIFF Amplify Voices BIPOC & Canadian First Feature Award presented by Canada Goose and the 2023 imagineNATIVE Sun Jury Award on its nationwide festival run.
About the film:
After experiencing a traumatic event, Uyarak leaves her community and family in Nunavut to live in Montreal. When COVID lockdowns close off the Canadian Arctic from the rest of the world, Uyarak is further separated from her closest confidant, eldest sister, Saqpinak. Uyarak doesn’t remember much about one terrible night of domestic violence, but Saqpinak does. Through zoom calls, Uyarak talks about healing from years of trauma and abuse, and how counselling and cultural reconnections are helping. It is revealed that Saqpinak is also experiencing domestic abuse at home. When Covid restrictions ease, Uyarak finally travels home to Igloolik where she embarks on a deeper healing journey visiting with family and elders, in town and out on the land. In a series of vignettes of heartache, healing and overcoming, Tautuktavuk (What We See) blurs the lines of both the fictional lives of the sisters and the non-fiction lives of the film’s creators who play the sisters, Lucy Tulugarjuk and Carol Kunnuk, respectively.
Tautuktavuk (What We See) stars Lucy Tulugarjuk, Carol Kunnuk, Benjamin Kunuk (One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk, Searchers), and Madeline Ivalu (The Grizzlies, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner) and is based on a script by Lucy Tulugarjuk, Carol Kunnuk, Samuel Cohn-Cousineau (Tia and Piujuq), Gillian Robinson (The Journals of Knud Rasmussen), and Norman Cohn (One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner).
The film is produced by Lucy Tulugarjuk and Jonathan Frantz (Angakusajaujuq – The Shaman’s Apprentice, One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk) and is executive produced by Zacharias Kunuk (Angakusajaujuq – The Shaman’s Apprentice, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner), Madeline Ivalu, Susan Avingaq (SOL, Tia and Piujuq) and Norman Cohn. In addition, a grassroots screening campaign is underway with community touring: Spring 2024. The film is also part of TIFF’s Film Circuit 2024, imagineNATIVE’s Film + Video Tour 2024 and available for bookings for National Canadian Film Day on April 17, 2024. Tautuktavuk is being distributed in Canada by Isuma Distribution International and Uvagut TV is the Canadian broadcaster (non-exclusive). All available rights outside of Canada are being handled by Isuma Distribution International.
Cinematography by Jonathan Frantz, production design by Susan Avingaq, costume design by Susan Avingaq and Deporah-Susie Qaunaq and editing by Jeremiah Hayes (Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, Reel Injun).
Tautuktavuk was produced with the participation of Canada Media Fund and Telefilm Canada, and with the assistance of the Government of Nunavut and the Nunavut Film Development Corporation. Tautuktavuk was shot during COVID in Montreal, QC and Igloolik, NU.
Who is it for?
Specify age
19+
HOW MUCH
Tickets : $10 – $15
Adult 19+ $15
Senior 65+ $13
Student 19+ $10.00
Accessible 19+ $10.00
How to get tickets?
Phone: VIFF Box Office (604) 683-3456
WHEN & WHERE
Date: Friday March 15, 2024 to Friday March 22, 2024
Friday March 15, 2024 at 2:30pm
**(With special pre-recorded Q&A with the filmmakers).
Saturday, March 16, 2024 at 4:30 pm and 7:15 pm
Sunday, March 17, 2024 at 4:10 pm
Monday, March 18, 2024 at 6:10 pm
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 6:10 pm
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 6:20 pm
Friday, March 22, 2024 at 6:00pm
Venue & Address
VIFF Centre , 1181 Seymour St, Vancouver, BC V6B 3M7
Wheelchair accessible
Accessible by Public Transport
