Collective wisdom in a melting world
Rachel Naninaaq Edwardson & Image: Chela Yego
Writer / Filmmaker
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Rachel is an Iñupiaq/Norwegian/Sami social justice filmmaker and educator from Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska. She is a Producer and Impact Producer on the film In My Blood It Runs directed in collaboration by Maya Newell and produced with Sophie Hyde and Larissa Bahrendt. Alongside filmmaking, Rachel has been honoured to work in education reform with communities across Alaska and Australia. She works closely with her husband and Human Rights lawyer/filmmaker and educator, David S Vadiveloo, across Australia and Alaska. Together Rachel and David have three beautiful children.
When I first entered filmmaking some 25 years ago there were almost no Iñupiaq or other First Nations filmmakers in Alaska and less Iñupiaq content on our screen. The only on-screen representation we saw of Iñupiaq people was through the biased, racist, western gaze of those filmmakers and media makers...
Rachel Naninaaq Edwardson & Image: Javie Huxley
In My Blood it Runs is a coming of age documentary which follows the story of Dujuan and his family as they navigate the systemic racism which seeps into every area of their lives. With a focus on self-narration and collaboration with Indigenous communities in the Northern Territories, the film...