Lindsay McIntyre is an award-winning writer/director of Inuit descent with a distinctive voice and compelling visual style who has an MFA in Film Production from Concordia University. Having made over 40 shorts over the past 20 years, she is stepping up to features with The Words We Can’t Speak (in advanced development) which won the WIDC Feature Film Award (worth $250K in-kind). She was recently selected as a 2024 FORGE Project Fellow and throughout the development of The Words We Can’t Speak she has participated in the Sundance Institute’s Native Lab, WIDC’s Story & Leadership program, Women in View’s Five in Focus: Indigenous, The Whistler Talent Labs, Banff’s Diversity of Voices, and WIFTV’s Tricksters and Writers.

Her films circle themes of portraiture, place, form and personal histories. She creates authentic stories with a focus on the generations of urban Inuit who have been displaced from Inuit Nunangat. Her recent short NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ The South Wind (2023) won Best Short Live Action at imagineNATIVE and a submission to the 2025 Academy Awards, the EDA Award for Best Short Film Directed by a Woman at the Whistler Film Festival, Outstanding Short Narrative Film, Cinematography, Production Design and Ensemble Performance at FAVA Fest, and Best Indigenous Film at the Arizona International Film Festival. Other film projects include Tuktuit (Caribou) (2024), an experimental doc about caribou made with caribou-based gelatin handmade emulsion, In a Name, an animated documentary about Kiviaq, the world's first Inuk lawyer, and a SSHRC-funded research and creation project linking land use, art practices, cultural knowledge and resource extraction in the circumpolar north. Her animated documentary for INUA at Qaumajuq, Ajjigiingiluktaaqtugut: We Are All Different (2021), earned a special mention as one of 2021 VIFF’s Best Shorts and was nominated for Best Animation at the American Indian Film Festival, and her experimental documentary Her Silent Life (2013) won best Experimental Film at imagineNATIVE.

Lindsay is also a skilled Cinematographer (Ste. Anne by Rhayne Vermette, LAKE by Alexandra Lazarowich, The Governmental Films of Matthew Rankin), and has won awards for her work as both and Editor and Production Designer.

She is a recipient of the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Excellence in Media Arts by the Canada Council, the REVEAL Indigenous Art Award (Hnatyshyn Foundation) and her films have received many festival accolades. Her work has been seen around the world including at the Smithsonian Institute, Berkley Museum and Pacific Film Archive's Alternative Visions, Ann Arbor, Anthology Film Archives, Pleasure Dome, Mono No Aware, Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Analogica, LA Skins Fest, WNDX, VIFF, Whistler, imagineNATIVE, Images, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Raindance, One Flaming Arrow, and Black Maria, and can be found in several permanent collections. She is an Associate Professor of Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design on unceded Coast Salish territories and she shares her passion for film anywhere else that people will listen.

Described by iconic actor Bruce Dern as “a one-woman studio – never seen anything like it,” Katrina Beatty is a Producer and Director based out of Edmonton, Alberta. She works in varying formats including short and feature films, web series, music videos and commercials.

Katrina has created music videos for Juno Award winning band Whitehorse (PINK KIMONO, BOYS LIKE YOU) and CMA Award winning country artist Gord Bamford (LIVIN’ ON SUMMERTIME). Her work with Edmonton band The Wet Secrets brought SCTV and FREAKS AND GEEKS alumnus Joe Flaherty back to Edmonton to resurrect his Count Floyd character in the music video NIGHTLIFE.

Notably, Katrina’s work in feature films lead her to partner with Rocky Mountain Pictures and Panacea Entertainment to produce the made-for-TV movie I THINK I DO. The film starred Mia Kirshner (THE L WORD, THE BLACK DAHLIA), garnering her a Canadian Screen Award nomination for her performance. The film premiered on the Lifetime Network to the highest ratings of all Valentine’s programming on the network that day. It is regularly broadcast on The W Network in Canada and has been sold all over the world.

Her production company Loud Whisper Productions produced the Telefilm funded feature film BEFORE I CHANGED MY MIND by Trevor Anderson which has won numerous awards for Best Acting (Locarno, Cardiff), Best Cinematography (AMPIA), Audience Choice (Rainbow Visions) and was named in the top 10 GLAAD List Scripts by Sundance.

Wes Miron is a Canadian independent cinematographer and producer. Since 1999, he has collaborated to create short films and documentaries and has exhibited his work at festivals around the world. His short film Undertow, co-created with Lindsay McIntyre, screened in Not Short on Talent - Berlinale and won the Rosie for Best Short Production, AMPIA Awards.

Lindsay Robinson has been an actor in Canada for over two decades. His work includes both stage and screen performance in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario.
He is a graduate of the Canadian College of Performing Arts in Victoria, BC and he holds an Honours degree from the University of Victoria. He is currently studying medicine on Treaty Six Territory at the University of Alberta.

Brenda skillfully played the role of Kumaa'naaq and also came on board as Inuktitut translator. She is an Inuktitut Instructor at Nunavut Arctic College, a respected community leader, and is a descendant of Leah Arnaujaq and and Noah Piugattuq.

"Brenda Amaklak Putulik’s outstanding performance drives a powerful story of sacrifice, survival and the injustices faced by women. And the film’s point of view exposes the emotional agony of indigenous women as they strive to impart their culture to their children only to be pressured by the system into confirming to the prevailing white culture, shining a light on the solemn of suffering and indignity." AWFJ Jury (Best Female-Directed Short, Whistler 2023)

The team of NIGIQTUQ is proud to introduce Naomi Natseck as Marguerite. Naomi (now 10 years old) lives with the mother Louisa Angugatiaq Natseck, her father, and her siblings in Naujaat, Nunavut.