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Out on general release in cinemas in New Zealand today, The Grizzlies is based on a true story set in Kugluktuk in Canada's Arctic, where the teenage suicide rate is the highest in North America.
It's an uplifting story about a rookie teacher who arrives from the south and starts a lacrosse team, which transforms this remote Inuit community.
Many among the young cast of high school students are first-time actors.
Kathryn speaks with director Miranda de Pencier, producer Stacey Aglok Macdonald who went to school in Kugluktuk, and first-time Inuit actor Anna Lambe who stars in the film as Spring.
