National Film Board
The 2024 Available Light Film Festival in Whitehorse is featuring five films by National Film Board of Canada (NFB) creators from February 8 through 18-a selection of powerful and deeply personal feature-length and short documentaries.
The festival will present the Yukon premieres of two feature docs:
- WaaPaKe (Tomorrow), directed by British Columbia filmmaker Jules Arita Koostachin, named Best BC Film at this year's Vancouver International Film Festival;
- A Quiet Girlby Montreal director Adrian Wills.
The festival is also screening three short docs from the NFB:
- Alberta filmmaker Leanne Allison's Losing Blue, recently named Best Canadian Short Film at the Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival in Toronto;
- Holly Andersen's Hebron Relocation and Heather Campbell's Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher, produced through the Labrador Doc Project, an NFB initiative to amplify the work of first-time Labrador Inuit filmmakers.
Feature-length documentaries
WaaPaKe (Tomorrow) by Jules Arita Koostachin (80 min)
Produced by Teri Snelgrove and executive produced by Shirley Vercruysse for the NFB
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