{"id":2352,"date":"2006-03-11T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/03\/the-journals-of-knud-rasmussen-to-open-tiff\/"},"modified":"2006-03-11T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-11T16:41:00","slug":"the-journals-of-knud-rasmussen-to-open-tiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/03\/the-journals-of-knud-rasmussen-to-open-tiff.html","title":{"rendered":"The Journals of Knud Rasmussen to open TIFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7991\/933\/1600\/journalsofknudrasmussen-apak.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7991\/933\/400\/journalsofknudrasmussen-apak.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/ots\/2006\/03\/the_journals_of.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">IndieWIRE<\/a> reports that <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/shamans-and-missionaries-among-inuit.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Journals of Knud Rasmussen<\/a><\/i>, the latest film about Inuit culture from the makers of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00007L4ON\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner<\/a><\/i> (2001), will have its world premiere at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e.bell.ca\/filmfest\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Toronto International Film Festival<\/a> on September 7:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOnce we saw Norm and Zach\u2019s film, we knew that one of the most important films from and about Canada had crossed our paths,\u201d explained festival co-director <b>Noah Cowan<\/b>, in an email exchange with indieWIRE today. \u201cAlthough we still have significant work to see from major Canadian directors, the unique storytelling and aesthetics of this film as our Opening Night speaks both to our core charitable mission of fostering motion picture culture and to showcase the diversity of global filmmaking worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the announcement from the festival, the film (set in 1922 in Igloolik) is described as \u201cthe story of the last great Inuit shaman, Avva, and his beautiful and headstrong daughter, Apak, who lives one foot in her father\u2019s world and the other on the verge of the future.\u201d Continuing, the description says, \u201cAs Avva strives to keep his family together on their path into the twentieth century, where the rise of Christianity and commerce is putting a swift end to their culture, a team of Danish scientists arrives to make record of his way of life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The filmmakers had talked about taking their film to Cannes, where <i>Atanarjuat<\/i> received a fair bit of acclaim a few years ago \u2014 but if it\u2019s premiering in the fall, I guess that isn\u2019t happening, now.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IndieWIRE reports that The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, the latest film about Inuit culture from the makers of Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001), will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7: \u201cOnce we saw Norm and Zach\u2019s film, we knew that one of the most important films from and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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