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Press Releases
Back to Press Release listing Éditions du Trécarré, in collaboration with
TVA International, will launch a book next week entitled Great North:
Discover the Arctic World. A stellar work that is both entertaining
and rich in knowledge, Great North invites readers on an unforgettable
trek through the mythical land of the midnight sun. Available November
10 in bookstores throughout Quebec, this fascinating book replete
with illustrations will also be available in French under the title
Le Grand Nord : Partez à la découverte du monde arctique.
Great North was co-authored by Quentin van Ginhoven and Stéphane
Tanguay, two devoted arctic specialists. The pages of Great North are divided into six chapters in which readers will discover the diversity of the Arctic and its environment, its flora and fauna, the caribou and reindeer, the Inuit (Canada), the Saami (Sweden), in addition to the particularities of filming in an arctic setting. Great North is a valuable reference with unique contemporary content: question and-answer sections, educational activities, games, a guide to syllabic languages (writing one’s name in Inuit symbols is easy to learn!) a glossary of selected words and even a group game for young people that gives them the opportunity to take on their very own cinematographic arctic adventure. It will intrigue kids, parents, teachers and anyone else that has ever dreamed of following the compass needle towards the Northern Lights to discover an expanse as vast as Nature itself. Directed by Martin J. Dignard with a script by David Homel and Georges-Hébert Germain, Great North is showing in Montreal until December 31, 2001 at the IMAX© theatre in the Paramount complex on Sainte-Catherine Street. Since its first screening in Stockholm in the fall of 2000, Great North has garnered several prestigious international distinctions, including “Best Cinematography” and “Best Feature Film” at the Long Beach International Film Festival in California, “Best Documentary” at the Reel to Real Film Festival in Shelby, North Carolina, “Grand Prix” at the La Géode large format film festival in Paris, and also received a notable nomination at the Banff Mountain Film Festival. As for the critics, praises have not been long in coming... “…To not see Great North is to never have seen this country of ours (...) Walt Disney can only be jealous.” - La Presse Great North: Discover the Arctic World has a touch of humour that
will please younger readers while providing an opportunity to broaden
their horizons in a subject matter that will also interest their
parents. With the impending flurries of snowflakes and holiday shopping,
this is the perfect gift for cocooning on cold evenings: what better
occasion to learn all the words the Inuit have for snow, to discover
the habits of the largest migratory population of mammals in the
world (the caribou), and to see geography, the environment, winter
and life itself in such a new, northern light! |
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