Netflix has debuted the trailer for their first Canadian original series, North of North, premiering April 10 on the streaming platform.
Filmed in Iqaluit, Nunavut and Toronto, the Arctic comedy series stars Anna Lambe (True Detective: Night Country), Maika Harper (Mohawk Girls), Braeden Clarke (Skymed), Jay Ryan (Mary Kills People), Mary Lynn Rajskub (24), Kelly William (Motherland: Fort Salem), Zorga Qaunaq, Bailey Poching (Kid Sister), Nutaaq Doreen Simmonds (True Detective: Night Country), Keira Belle Cooper, and Tanya Tagaq (True Detective: Night Country).
The logline reads, “A young Inuk woman wants to build a new future for herself after a spontaneous — and extremely public — exit from her marriage. But it won’t be easy in a small Arctic town where everybody knows your business.”
“While these stories are all fictional, a lot of them come from grains of truth in our lives. It feels like we’re opening up our diary to the world, which is scary but also incredibly cathartic,” Co-Creator and Executive Producer Stacey Aglok MacDonald tells Tudum.
With this character, I saw a story that I was familiar with, about so many people that I grew up with. That drove me to want to be a part of telling this story, to go through all of Siaja’s layers and unpack why she is how she is,” star Anna Lambe adds.
Co-Creator ad Executive Producer Alethea Arnaquq-Baril also tells Tudum: “The best part about this job is trying to paint a true picture of humanity through comedy – because sometimes the most beautiful and powerful illustrations of that come when we are at our most ridiculous and raw. It’s really exciting to be able to take the deep work that we have been doing in our Indigenous community for many years, and bring our life experiences as modern Inuit to the global stage.”
Watch the official trailer for North of North below.
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