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Inukjuak – Innalik School, part of the Kativik School Board, is a primary and secondary school in Inukjuak, Nunavik, Quebec with more than 400 students. The school program is divided into three sections:
- Inuktitut program—kindergarten and primary cycle (more than 100 students)
- French section as a second language—primary and secondary cycles (around 150 students)
- English section as a second language—primary and secondary cycle (around 150 students)
The teaching staff is more than 40 teachers including 15 in the Inuit section and around 5 specialist teachers in various domains.
The school became famous after being featured in the 2004 documentary Inuuvunga: I Am Inuk, I Am Alive (58 minutes) when 8 Inuit high school students from the school documented their final year in the high school.
The film was in Inuktitut with subtitles in English[1] and was produced by National Film Board of Canada (NFB), (including Sally Bochner as executive producer and Pierre Lapointe as producer.
NFB had dispatched EyeSteelFilm directors Daniel Cross, Mila Aung-Thwin, Brett Gaylor to Inukjuak – Innalik School, Nunavik, Quebec, to teach the students the skills of filming. The students who took part in the filming were:[2]
- Bobby Echalook
- Caroline Ningiuk
- Dora Ohaituk
- Laura Iqaluk
- Linus Kasudluak
- Rita-Lucy Ohaituk
- Sarah Idlout
- Willia Ningeok
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