David Borish & Team Launch ‘Nanuk Narratives’
Join David Borish, EC50 Class of 2023, and director of the upcoming film series Nanuk Narratives, for the online series launch on December 6, from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM EST.
Nanuk Narratives is an Inuit-led series of short documentary films that explores the deep and enduring relationship among Inuit and the polar bears in the Davis Strait subpopulation range. The series highlights an diversity of lived experiences with polar bears, including long-time polar bear hunters, Elders, cooks, and youth across Nunavut, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut, and Greenland.
This online event is part of the official release of the Nanuk Narratives series, and so a variety of short films will be shared about topics such as Inuit observations of bear abundance and health, human-bear encounters and safety, the cultural and emotional connections to bears, and Inuit recommendations for polar bear stewardship.
As a wildlife co-management-led film production, this initiative represents a unique collaboration among the Torngat Wildlife & Plants Co-Management Board, the Nunavik Marine Region Wildlife Board, the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, as well as the Anguvigaq in Nunavik, and the Pangnirtung Hunters and Trappers Organization. This event will hear directly from the wildlife co-management leaders, filmmakers, researchers, and community partners behind this initiative.
Register at the link below to join David and the team for the virtual series launch on online December 6, 2024 from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM EST.
David Borish is a social and health researcher and visual artist pushing the boundaries of using audio-visual methodologies to explore and understand relationships between humans and the environment. His work sits at the interface of documentary film, public health, cultural and social wellbeing, wildlife conservation, and audio-visual research methods. Through his PhD, Borish was the director of HERD: Inuit Voices on Caribou, a research-based documentary film project about the connection between caribou and Inuit well-being in Labrador, Canada, which has been broadcasted on CBC and has been screened at more than 15 international film festivals. His particular expertise is blending documentary film with qualitative analysis for community-based research projects. Previously, he has worked as a visual educator for National Geographic Student Expeditions in Iceland and Alaska, and has led a variety of visual-based projects about environmental and social issues in Uganda, Peru, Nepal, Kenya, Malaysia, and other parts of the world.
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