By Kira Wronska Dorward Nunavut News On the heels of a new Inuit series for Netflix and CBC, more Inuit representation in film is on the horizon with a new movie under a \u00a0casting call in Iqaluit. Filmmakers Jaap van Heusden and Arviat’s Vinnie Karetak have been seeking actors for their feature ‘In Alaska.’ \u201cWe\u2019ve expanded our search from some of the roles that we have that \u00a0are Inuit, that we will need to fill for our filming to be done in \u00a0Nunavut, hopefully at the end of April,\u201d Karetak told Nunavut News. He \u00a0became involved when van Heusden sought \u201can eye for an Inuit project\u201d in \u00a0the fall of 2019, \u201cand to see if it was something that the Inuit \u00a0community could stand behind… [Van Heusden] being a white… <\/p>\n
By Kira Wronska Dorward Nunavut News On the heels of a new Inuit series for Netflix and CBC, more Inuit representation in film is on the horizon with a new movie under a \u00a0casting call in Iqaluit. Filmmakers Jaap van Heusden and Arviat’s Vinnie Karetak have been seeking actors for their feature ‘In Alaska.’ \u201cWe\u2019ve expanded our search from some of the roles that we have that \u00a0are Inuit, that we will need to fill for our filming to be done in \u00a0Nunavut, hopefully at the end of April,\u201d Karetak told Nunavut News. He \u00a0became involved when van Heusden sought \u201can eye for an Inuit project\u201d in \u00a0the fall of 2019, \u201cand to see if it was something that the Inuit \u00a0community could stand behind… [Van Heusden] being a white... <\/p>\n