BEFORE TOMORROW
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Based on Danish author Jorn Riel's classic novel, Before Tomorrow is a timeless Arctic fable of an Inuit woman and her beloved grandson who, after going to the island to dry their fish, return to their camp to discover that their family has been wiped out by infection carried by white travellers. Returning to the island, they confront what it means to be the last human beings on Earth.
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Marie-Hélène Cousineau
Director
Marie-Hélène Cousineau is a founder and coordinator of Arnait Ikajurtigiit, a Inuit women’s video workshop, as well as a collaborating producer. She has written about the experiences of women making video in Igloolik, Nunavut and curated several exhibitions of this work. Her video work has been widely exhibited in Canada, the United States and Europe. Cousineau earned her MFA in communications from the University of Iowa and was an associate professor of communications at Concordia University in Montreal from 1997 to 1999. Before Tomorrow is her first feature film.
Madeline Ivalu
Director
Madeline Ivalu has been a key elder participant in all the works of Arnait Ikajurtigiit since 1991. She has been a cultural advisor as well as a storyteller, musician, actor and writer for such productions as Qulliq, Ataguttaluk Starvation, Piujuq and Angutautuq, and Unikausiq. In 1997, she presented the workshop videos in Ottawa and Montreal. She was part of the Pan Arctic Women Artists Workshop and is president of Naluat, in Igloolik, a women's sewing collective. She represents Igloolik women to Paukktutit, the Pan-Canadian Inuit Women's organization. Before Tomorrow is her first feature film as both co-director and actress.
35 mm
High definition
93 minutes
Colour
Aspect ratio
1.85
Original version in Inuktitut
Subtitled in English and in French
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Producers
Zacharias Kunuk
Norman Cohn
Stéphane Rituit
Directors
Marie-Hélène Cousineau
Madeline Ivalu
Scriptwriter
Marie-Hélène Cousineau
Directors of Photography
Norman Cohn
Félix Lajeunesse
Editors
Marie-Hélène Cousineau
Norman Cohn
Félix Lajeunesse
Louise Dugal
Sound
Richard Lavoie
Arnaud Derimay
Cast
Madeline Ivalu
Paul-Dylan Ivalu
Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq
Mary Qulitalik
Tumasie Sivuarapik
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Production
Igloolik Isuma Productions Inc.
P.O. Box 223
Igloolik Nunavut
X0A 0L0
Canada
(867) 934-8809
(867) 934-8700
isuma@isuma.ca
www.isuma.ca
Kunuk Cohn Productions Inc.
5764, av. Monkland
Bureau 223
Montreal Quebec
H4A 1E9
Canada
(514) 486-0707
(514) 486-9851
cohn@isuma.ca
www.isuma.ca
Distribution – Canada
Alliance Atlantis – MDP/Vivafilm
121 Bloor St. E.
Suite 1500
Toronto Ontario
M4W 3M5
Canada
(416) 967-1174
(416) 960-0971
International distribution
Isuma Distribution International
5764, av. Monkland
Bureau 223
Montreal Quebec
H4A 1E9
Canada
(514) 486-0707
(514) 486-9851
cohn@isuma.ca
www.isuma.ca
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