A new CBC/APTN/Netflix comedy series highlights the unique and universal humor found in Inuit communities. The show, filmed in Iqaluit, Nunavut, showcases the talents of Inuk writers, actors, and producers and strives to establish Iqaluit as a prominent film and television hub.
On a trip to the territorial capital this past spring where the new CBC/APTN/Netflix TV comedy was shooting, you couldn’t throw a snowball without hitting a comedian – even off set. The Inuk writer I got to chatting with at a colourful sports bar called the Chartroom? He sent me off into the frigid night to Google his stand-up sets online.
The elder who offered up traditional teachings and my first taste of polar bear in a pavilion in Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park? She turned out to be a regular performer at the Arctic Comedy Festival. Co-creators and producers Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril of Red Marrow Media have set out to capture the unique humour found everywhere in Inuit communities in a story with universal appeal that they hope has laid the groundwork for transforming Iqaluit into a major film and television hub. Trying to describe what makes comedy distinct up North, the two Inuk women regularly erupt into flurries of shared laughter in the second-floor Frobisher Racquet Club, which has been doubling as their production office and is attached to the Iqaluit Curling Club, which they’ve temporarily transformed into a studio. “It’s pretty raunchy,” offers Arnaquq-Baril. “A lot teasing, a lot of poking fun, a lot of laughing at ourselves and our often less-than-fortunate situation.” Adds Aglok MacDonald: “Not that it’s not also smart, but we’re not above broad humour, that’s for sure.” The series, premiering on CBC, CBC Gem and APTN on Jan. 7, follows young Inuk mother Siaja (Anna Lambe, most recently seen on HBO’s) when she decides to leave her self-absorbed husband, Ting, after he nearly leaves her to drown during a seal-hunt mishap
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