REVIEWS

CHANNEL CANADA (April 23, 2006)
World Collide on History Television
" Herschel Island is a small, unassuming parcel of land just off the Yukon coast. It lies silently on the margins of geography, entrapped in the footnotes of history, a forgotten place frozen in time. And yet..."(more)

THE CANADIAN PRESS (April 26, 2006)
An Arctic Sodom
"A century ago it was the Sodom of the Arctic, a haven for whaling ships and their crews during the harsh northern winters. Herschel Island, just off the Yukon coast, became what's been called the most debauched frontier boom town of them all. It also played a major role in the beginning of the end of an Inuit culture..."(more)

SEE MAGAZINE (April 27, 2006)
Once it was whales : Author/hero documented earlier economic frenzy - Tom Murray
"The best films get made when you're discovering the story as you make it," observes Edmonton director Tom Radford, "as opposed to when you have a blueprint in your head."...(more)

VUE WEEKLY (April 27, 2006)
Hear The Inuvialuit Whale After First Foreign Contact - Brian Gibson
Tom Radford's worlds collide is a must-see doc
"In 2001, almost 80 years after Robert Flaherty's quasi-ethnographic silent doc Nanook of the North premiered, Zacharias Kunuk released his low-budget Atanarjuat : The Fast Runner, a DV retelling of an Inuit myth involving only
non-professional actors speaking Inuktitut..."(more)

GLOBE & MAIL (April 29, 2006)
Pick of the Day - News & Docs - Henrietta Walmark
The tragic tale of Nuligak, a young Inuvialuit boy living in a remote Arctic community during the last great whaling boom at the end of the 19 th century, becomes the basis for significant insights into the modern plight of Canada's northern people in this documentary directed by Tom Radford…”(more)