Promotional still for Ever Deadly courtesy of NFB.
90 minutes – Documentary, Indigenous, Music Languages: English and Inuktitut with English subtitles Festival release date: September 9, 2022 (TIFF, World Premiere) Release date: TBA Production company: National Film Board (NFB) Canadian distributor: National Film Board (NFB)
Ever Deadly is a music documentary that focuses on the life and performance Inuk throat singer, Tanya Tagaq, an improvisational singer, avant-garde composer and author from Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuuttiaq), who now divides her time between Nunavut and Toronto. A member of the Order of Canada, a Polaris Music Prize and JUNO Award winner and recipient of multiple honorary doctorates, Tagaq is an original disruptor, a world-changing figure at the forefront of seismic social, political and environmental change. The film weaves concert footage with stunning sequences filmed on location in Nunavut, seamlessly bridging landscapes, stories and songs with pain, anger and triumph—all through the expressions of one of the most innovative musical performers of our time.
Crew:
Producer:
Lea Marin Anita Lee
Executive Producer:
Anita Lee
Co-Producer:
Kate Vollum
Director:
Tanya Tagaq Chelsea McMullan
Screenwriter:
Tanya Tagaq Chelsea McMullan
Cinematographer:
Alejandro Coronado Ann Tipper (Additional Cinematography) Catherine Lutes CSC (Additional Cinematography) Maya Bankovic CSC (Concert footage) Adam Tuppe (Steadicam Operator)
Editor:
Avrïl Jacobson, CCE
Composer:
Jesse Zubot (Original music)
Cast:
Roles:
Tanya Tagaq Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory Mary Gillis Inuuja Gillis Lucas Kalluk