THE LONGEST PORTAGE BEGINS WITH a single step—and a steep rise.
Sarah Leo is the recently elected President of Nunatsiavut. I ask her about the area
we’re to canoe through. She laughs heartily and says, “That’s not an area people go in the summertime—partly because of the difficult access...but mostly because of the flies.” I’ll use this quote in the narration of our buggy portage up the Poungasse a few days later. One interview down. From Nain, it’s 238 thick kilometers to the George River in Nunavik and after
speaking with Leo, I want to know if the rest of the locals think what we’re doing is rational, mad or somewhere in between. In a grassy field along the shoreline, I interview Johannes Lamp, an experienced hunter and local politician. He encourages and discourages me at the same time. “It will be difficult...but if you are determined, I think you can make it.” A nice bit of narration to lay over the portage footage, I think. In just a few hours I’ve managed to grab the local commentary I need to give context to the first leg of the film.
“That’s not an area people go in the summertime—partly because of the difficult access...but mostly because of the flies.”
—Sarah Leo, President of Nunatsiavut
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