Netflix Indigenous Arctic Comedy in the Works With CBC, Aptn
www.imdb.com- Author: Etan Vlessing
- March 30,2023
Netflix has jumped on board an untitled comedy to be shot in Canada’s Arctic for local broadcasters CBC and Aptn.
The homegrown Indigenous series is set to film in the Canadian territory of Nunavut and will center on a young Inuk mother who wants to build a new future for herself in her small Arctic town, but comes up against everyone knowing her business. There’s no word on casting, but the English-language comedy will have some local Inuktitut language spoken by the characters, according to producers.
The series from Northwood Entertainment and Red Marrow Media was created and will be written by Inuit screenwriter and producer Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Inuit filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril. Netflix will stream the comedy worldwide, and eventually in Canada, after local broadcast windows on the CBC and Aptn, the country’s Indigenous TV network.
“This series is full of stories that come straight
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The homegrown Indigenous series is set to film in the Canadian territory of Nunavut and will center on a young Inuk mother who wants to build a new future for herself in her small Arctic town, but comes up against everyone knowing her business. There’s no word on casting, but the English-language comedy will have some local Inuktitut language spoken by the characters, according to producers.
The series from Northwood Entertainment and Red Marrow Media was created and will be written by Inuit screenwriter and producer Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Inuit filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril. Netflix will stream the comedy worldwide, and eventually in Canada, after local broadcast windows on the CBC and Aptn, the country’s Indigenous TV network.
“This series is full of stories that come straight
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