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In this special edition of The Fabulous Picture Show, we witness the birth of a film-making nation - the story of how Greenland presented itself to the world with its first ever self-produced and financed feature film, Nuummioq.
Many Greenlanders feel they are portrayed either as happy Eskimos hunting polar bears with spears, or dysfunctional drunks unable to cope with modern life. But as the nation prepared for the November 2008 referendum, extending their self-governing status from Denmark, producer Mikisoq Lynge and director Otto Rosing were attempting to tell a story that that would show real life in modern Greenland.
We first meet Mikisoq as he struggles to raise money at the Cannes film festival in May and follow him as he battle indifference from investors; unfair Danish funding laws; the vast ice cap that covers most of their country; long working days that exhaust their crew and the sheep that refuses to be slaughtered on camera.
But the resulting film, Nuummioq, looks fantastic and succeeds in telling a powerful story about life in modern Greenland. When it finishes its run in Greenlandic cinemas, is likely to have been seen by 10 per cent of the population. Most importantly for the filmmakers, it is already a movie that makes Greenlanders proud.