Photo: Nowhere Land film sheds light on changing North Baffin

In 1984 when she was eight years old, Bonnie Ammaaq, above, moved to an outpost camp on North Baffin. She lived there for 11 years with her parents and two younger siblings and the family fed themselves mostly with food from the land. They now live in Igloolik but their connection to the land remains fierce. “Nowhere Land,” a National Film Board of Canada film, tells Ammaaq’s story of North Baffin including, “the sadness, anger and conflict she has felt witnessing, from afar, its transformation into the world’s largest open pit iron mine.” Written by Bonnie Ammaq and Alicia Smith and produced by Alicia Smith in partnership with the Nunavut Film Development Corporation, the film will screen at Iqaluit’s Astro Theatre on March 4 at 7 p.m. (PHOTO COURTESY NFB)