Sol (film)

Sol
Directed by Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Susan Avingaq
Produced by Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Stephane Rituit
Cinematography François Dagenais
Edited by Jeremiah Hayes
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Running time
 76 minutes
Country Canada
Language Inuktitut, English

Sol is a 2014 Canadian documentary film by Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Susan Avingaq about Solomon Uyarasuk , a musician/circus performer who died in police custody[1] in Igloolik, Nunavut. The film questions the claims by the local RCMP detachment that Uyarasuk hanged himself in his cell, and also explores the wider issue of Nunavut's very high suicide rate.[2]

The film played at the 2014 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto.[3]

The film subsequently won the Grand Prize for Best Canadian Feature at the RIDM Montreal International Documentary Festival[4] and was included in the list of "Canada's Top Ten" feature films of 2014, selected by a panel of filmmakers and industry professionals organized by TIFF.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Shewchuk: Nunavut coroner to hold inquest next year in death of Igloolik man". Nunatsiaq Online. 2013-09-18. Retrieved 2015-01-16.
  2. ↑ Sean Kelly (2014-10-23). "imagineNATIVE 2014 Review: Sol". Toronto Film Scene. Retrieved 2015-01-16.
  3. ↑ "2014 Festival Schedule". imagineNATIVE.org. Archived from the original on 2014-12-13.
  4. ↑ "Award Winners of the 17th Edition". RIDM — Montreal International Documentary Festival. 2014-11-23. Archived from the original on 2015-01-15.
  5. ↑ "TIFF Tips Its Toque to the Best in Canadian Filmmaking: Cronenberg, Dolan, and Gunnarson Among Directors Recognized" (Press release). TIFF. 1 December 2014.
  6. ↑ Linda Barnard (1 December 2014). "TIFF’s Top Ten Film Festival: Spotlight on Canadian film". Toronto Star. Retrieved 21 December 2014.

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