Photo: Sanikiluaq films screens at Vancouver Film Festival

“People of a Feather,” by rookie filmmaker and researcher Joel Heath and the community of Sanikiluaq, screens Oct. 9 at Vancouver’s Empire Granville theatre as an official selection at the Vancouver International Film Festival. A feature-length documentary about eider ducks, the Sanikiluaq islanders who rely on them and the challenges they face adapting to changing sea ice ecosystem grew out of Heath’s research in the Belcher Islands. “After being there many years, I became a “hunter” as a filmmaker at Agiairaluk, the area around a big mountain where tens of thousands of eiders spend the night and take flight for the floe edges at dawn,” he told the Vancouver Sun. You can watch the film’s trailer at http://www.peopleofafeather.com/trailer/. (HANDOUT PHOTO)