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Paninnguaq Pikilak – Greenland

Paninnguaq Pikilak is a newly bloomed documentarist and writer from Narsaq, a little town in South Greenland. She focuses on culture preservation and to convey cultural values in her storytelling and work as a Traditional practitioner of Tunniit (Inuit tattooing), book writing and filmmaking. With her first documentary White Paper, she showed how a possible open pit mine, which contained Radioactive soils like Uranium and Thorium, were affecting the people of her hometown and their livelihood. She is now working on her next documentary about the loss and revitalization of Tunniit in the Arctic.