‘Kitturiaq’ film trailer from Frank Wolf on Vimeo.
In Kitturiaq, adventurer and award-winning filmmaker, Frank Wolf, documents his three-week journey across the Labrador Plateau through rarely travelled land. Wolf shared the experience of juggling the duties of director, videographer, editor, producer, expedition leader, camp cook and sherpa with Canoeroots’ readers in the Spring 2013 issue and has just released a trailer for the feature length film.
Wolf had never ventured to the most eastern part of Canada’s mainland before arriving for his expedition. “Nunatsiavut and Nunavik are places I’d never been so like any traveler I was drawn to experience a place completely new to me, and then share what I learned on film,” says Wolf.
The gruelling 21-day expedition across the lonely tundra challenged him as he battled endless bugs and long portages.
“Like any good trip, it was full of surprise and adventure that can’t necessarily be anticipated. Unexpected was the high quality of whitewater on the unknown Natikamaukau River that feeds into the George River in Nunavik, and spending time with the Innu at Mushau Nipi learning about their lives and culture,” says Wolf. “The knowledge shared by the Inuit and Innu is a big part of the film.”
“Not so enjoyable, perhaps, but still rewarding, were the days of dragging the canoe over the Labrador Plateau as we found many of the lakes and rivers marked on the maps too shallow and rock-choked to paddle…and then of course there were the clouds of mosquitoes and their cousins the black flies- the ‘kitturiaq’ which the film is named after.” Wolf notes that difficult times also made for good filming, as did his daily encounters with caribou, bears and other wildlife in the vast Labrador landscape.
Read more about Wolf’s expedition in Canoeroots’ Spring 2013 issue—download it via your Apple or Android device or view free online.
Wolf is expecting to release Kitturiaq this October. Never one to sit on his laurels, Wolf has another adventure planned for the summer, this time an attempted row through the Northwest Passage (www.thelastfirst.com).
