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    How a Neighborhood — and Netflix — Created an Total Manufacturing Ecosystem in Nunavut for ‘North of North’

    David GroveBy David GroveApril 9, 20256 Mins Read
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    With the globalization of content material on streamers, native and particular tales are likely to resonate broadly. In Canada, that’s true of Netflix-hosted second-window runs of collection like “Schitt’s Creek” and “Kim’s Comfort,” so it was solely a matter of time earlier than the streamer invested in a novel Canadian story of its personal.

    Enter “North of North,” a brand-new Inuk comedy from Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril that filmed in Iqaluit, Nunavut (the most important and northernmost territory of Canada), final 12 months. The mission is a co-commission from Netflix and the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC), in affiliation with the Aboriginal Peoples Tv Community (APTN).

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    “North of North” is a collection of firsts. It’s the primary authentic scripted Canadian fee from Netflix, the primary scripted collection to movie in Nunavut, and the primary mission to seize the on a regular basis joys of a traditionally misrepresented tradition.  

    The eight-episode collection revolves round a younger Inuk mom named Siaja (Anna Lambe) who realizes she wants a recent begin, so she blows up her life to forge her personal path, regardless of the expectations of her group. There’s laughter, however that is additionally a collection about illustration and group empowerment. It takes place in the course of the celebratory spring, and Siaja works on the group heart, the place every little thing occurs.

    “For us, group facilities are the one constructing on the town the place you are able to do large gatherings or weddings or elections or funerals,” Arnaquq-Baril advised IndieWire throughout a set go to. “You identify it, and something that requires a giant house occurs on the group heart.”

    From the start, manufacturing challenges included procuring sources and filming throughout suboptimal climate. The place doable, supplies needed to be shipped by sea in the course of the quick thaw to save lots of on costly airfreight. For consistency throughout reshoots, manufacturing introduced dump vans filled with snow in from surrounding areas.

    North of North. Maika Harper as Neevee in episode 102 of North of North. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
    ‘North of North’COURTESY OF NETFLIX

    Some units had been constructed in Toronto, disassembled and shipped out and have now been preserved for a possible second season. They flew empty mills in and located locals to rev them up. Manufacturing needed to pause twice when a housing and mining conference got here to city as a result of there wasn’t sufficient lodge house to accommodate everybody.

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    “There are solely a restricted variety of sources on the town, and generally issues simply aren’t obtainable,” mentioned manufacturing designer Andrew Berry. “And we will’t suck up all of that useful resource in order that it’s not right here for the group. We needed to convey up our personal every little thing.”

    When the collection was first developed with CBC, the restricted finances left producers with few choices. The preliminary thought was to movie in Sudbury, Ontario, and on a soundstage in Toronto. Nonetheless, that created sensible issues, like avoiding timber or flying 100 extras down south.

    “We additionally thought there was no approach we might make an Inuit-led present in regards to the Arctic and shoot it in southern Ontario,” mentioned government producer Miranda de Pencier. “It was simply not going to occur.”

    Partnering with Netflix and its hefty (however undisclosed) enhance to the finances helped convey manufacturing to the place it wanted to be bodily, nevertheless it was the group that pushed this collection to the end line. Manufacturing borrowed and remodeled the Iqaluit Curling Rink right into a studio that housed constructed units, however additionally they went into actual places and houses for an built-in really feel. Costume designers relied on social media to supply folks flying into Iqaluit to convey sure objects from Ottawa or Toronto. The crew labored with a neighborhood cab firm to determine transportation, together with on filming days when transportable washrooms weren’t sensible as a result of the pipes would freeze.

    North of North. (L to R) Bailey Poching as Colin, Zorga Qaunaq as Millie in episode 103 of North of North. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
    ‘North of North’COURTESY OF NETFLIX

    “The primary 4 episodes had been onerous as a result of we actually needed to work out plenty of logistics,” mentioned Anya Adams, who directed the primary two installments. “As soon as we did that, it was additionally serving to the group perceive what we had been doing in order that they may get behind us and never really feel impacted.”

    Aglok MacDonald and Arnaquq-Baril dwell in Nunavut, they usually had many essential conversations with their neighbors about what was required and the way they wished to offer again. They prioritized hiring and coaching locals the place doable, held coaching workshops to assist youth inform their very own tales, used an all-female staff of Indigenous administrators, together with Adams and Danis Goulet, and went to work on a manufacturing studio with private and non-private funding.

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    “The studio is separate from the present however made doable by the present,” mentioned Aglok MacDonald. “Filming within the curling rink is a one-time factor. It’s used lots by the group, and we will’t take it away on an ongoing foundation. So we urgently acquired all the way down to fundraising to construct the studio.”

    Arnaquq-Baril provides that, with “North of North,” many individuals might see the speedy affect on the group, each financially and when it comes to making a platform. “With the ability to maintain going is essential,” she mentioned. “We had been decided to make use of this as a chance the place others can innovate and do their very own initiatives, even when it’s not the identical scale because the mission we have now.”

    North of North. Anna Lambe as Siaja in episode 101 of North of North. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
    On the set of ‘North of North’COURTESY OF NETFLIX

    The co-showrunners have labored extensively with de Pencier prior to now on initiatives like “The Grizzlies” and “Throat Track.” She remembers them saying early on that they didn’t need anybody from the south coming to the north with out creating one thing lasting.

    “They had been those who mentioned there’s sufficient coming and going. Folks pop in and do one thing, after which they disappear, and nothing adjustments,” de Pencier mentioned. “They mentioned, if we’re going to place vitality into these initiatives, it’s important to make investments sooner or later.”

    Lambe, who was born in Iqaluit, additionally appreciates the co-showrunners’ community-oriented strategy. It was a part of what attracted her to the collection. “It’s not nearly how can we showcase our group in a option to the world that enables folks to see us authentically, but additionally how can we empower and assist our group members to become involved in an business that has usually exploited and or left them out of the dialog?,” she advised IndieWire. “So to see how this business has grown a lot, in my lifetime residing right here, is unbelievable.”

    “North of North” begins streaming on Thursday, April 10 on Netflix.



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