Rachel Naŋinaaq Edwardson
Director, Writer, Producer, Impact Producer
Films and TV
“I will tell you something about stories, [he said] They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death. You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.” -― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
Atautchikun-Together as One
2024, Hybrid Drama-Feature
Co-Director/Co-Producer
In development with
Nanum Kigum- The Polar Bears Tooth
2024, Short Iñupiaq Fantasy Film
Director/Producer/Writer, In Development
History of the Iñupiat
2004-Present, Documentary Series
Films:
Nipaa Ilitqusipta: The Voice of Our Spirit
Navigating Currents: The Protection of Subsistence Whaling- In development
Director/Co-Producer/Co-Writer/Impact Producer
Naumi
2024, Political Period Drama, TV Series
Co-Writer/Director/Co-Producer
In Development
In My Blood It Runs
2019 -2024 Feature Documentary and Impact Campaign
Co-Producer and Co-Impact Producer
with Maya Newell, Sophie Hyde
and Larissa Behrendt
Burn
2008, Short Improvisational Drama
Consultant Director, Creative Workshop Co-Designer and Co-Facilitator
Other Work & Partners
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Shado: Why are you interviewing my Aapa, filmmaking and empowerment
Green European Journal: Collective Wisdom in a Melting World
Dumbo Feather, March 2022 edition: Finding Our Way Home
Risky Futures, Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North, by Olga Ulturgasheva & Barbara Bodenhorn: Chapter 3, She’ll Do What She Needs To Do
INTERVIEWS & VIDEO/PODCASTS
Radical Realities, Documentary Storytelling and the Global Fight for Social Justice by Caty Borum & David Conrad-Pérez: Interviewed for In My Blood It Runs Case Study
RRR Radio: Mixed Medicine , Episode 3
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Working with Amiun and Coculture Communication to delivery practice-based reform for individuals, leaders, practitioners and community-based groups.
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North Slope Borough School District
Our North Star
We look for stories that carry spirit, that speak to the heart and that move us to action.
Stories that surprise us and stay with us. Stories that remind us of the inalienable power of being human.
These are the stories we work to bring to screen.
This we do in collaboration with the communities and people who we see on screen and with makers who know the power and responsibility of art in our societies.
Contact
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