MEET THE FILMMAKERS

Chaim Andersen is a young Inuk mother from Nain Nunatsiavut, where the story takes place. She was raised in a big family who live an Inuit way of life hunting, fishing, gathering, and living on the land when they are not in the community. A family of leaders who are strong, inspirational, and have shown her what it means to care for the well being of her people, the land and sea, and all other living beings.

Now working as the Community Climate Change Liaison for the Nunatsiavut Government, Chaim is helping to provide opportunities and support for Nunatsiavut communities to build resilience and reduce the impacts of climate change through adaptation and monitoring. She is passionate about protecting the environment and the culture in which she lives.

Kat Frick Miller is a Canadian artist and freelance illustrator. You can find her painting in her Dartmouth, Nova Scotia studio or exploring the rural seaside of Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia.

Kat is known for her playful work exploring east coast heritage and culture.  She graduated from NSCAD University in 2009 with an interdisciplinary BFA.

She is the illustrator of If I Had an Old House on the East Coast by Wanda Baxter, published by Nimbus Publishing. Her illustrations have been featured in Canadian publications including The Walrus, The Narwhal and the Atlantic Salmon Journal.

www.katfrickmiller.com

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Jenn Thornhill Verma is an investigative journalist, landscape painter and filmmaker from Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), living in Ottawa, Canada. She is a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (FRCGS), a Fellow International of The Explorers Club (FI’23), a Pulitzer Grantee (2024), an alumna of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, and executive lead of the Global Commission on Evidence to Address Societal Challenges.

Jenn has Master’s degrees of Fine Arts (Creative Nonfiction, University of King’s College) and Science (Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland). In 2019, she published her first book, Cod Collapse: The Rise and Fall of Newfoundland’s Saltwater Cowboys, which was shortlisted for a historical writing award at the 2021 Atlantic Book Awards. Jenn has bylines in Canadian Geographic, CBC, The Globe and Mail, The Narwhal, Reader’s Digest, and writes a monthly Seasplainer column in The Independent newspaper in NL.

www.jennthornhillverma.com

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