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Slash/Back
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Wikipedia article
'Slash/Back' is a 2022 Canadian Inuit science fiction film directed by Nyla Innuksuk in her feature debut from a screenplay by Innuksuk and Ryan Cavan. It premiered at the 2022 South by Southwest Festival in Texas.
Cast
* Tasiana Shirley as Maika
* Alexis Wolfe as Jesse
* Nalajoss Ellsworth as Uki
* Chelsea Prusky as Leena
* Frankie Vincent-Wolfe
Production
Principal photography took place on location on Baffin Island in summer 2019. It became the first production to film in the Inuit hamlet of Pangnirtung.
Release
The concept for 'Slash/Back' was first presented at the 2018 Frontires Co-Pro Market in Montral, followed by the 2019 Frontires Finance and Packaging Forum in Helsinki and then the March du Film at the Cannes Film Festival, after which point Sierra/Affinity boarded the project as an international distributor.
A first look still was revealed in March 2021.
Critical response
Barry Hertz of 'The Globe and Mail' wrote that "the moments between can be rough, the result of a script whose last two acts cant reach the heights of its enticing conceit, a choppy sense of pacing that speeds up when it should slow down and vice versa, an amateur cast whose rawness is at odds with the story that they are enlisted with telling, and a no-frills visual-effects budget that robs the film of its central creature-feature thrills. There is, though, so much promise in every chilly inch of Innuksuks vision, starting with her films firm sense of place the director grew up in Nunavut, dreaming of darkness even when sunlight was 24/7 and extending to how the director continues horrors long tradition of sneaking in heavy themes that audiences might otherwise not so readily shoulder."Barry Hertz, [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/reviews/article-nunavut-set-horror-movie-slashback-spills-plenty-of-blood-even-if-its/ "Nunavut-set horror movie Slash/Back spills plenty of blood, even if its missing some guts"]. 'The Globe and Mail', June 20, 2022.
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