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Slash/Back is a 2022 Canadian Inuit science fiction film directed by Nyla Innuksuk in her feature debut from a screenplay by Innuksuk and Ryan Cavan. It premiered at the 2022 South by Southwest Festival in Texas.[1]

This article needs a plot summary. (October 2022)

Slash/Back
Directed by	Nyla Innuksuk
Screenplay by	Nyla Innuksuk Ryan Cavan
Produced by	Dan Bekerman Christopher Yurkovich Alex Ordanis Nyla Innuksuk Stacey Aglok McDonald Alethea Arnaquq-Baril Ethan Lazar
Cinematography	Guy Godfree
Edited by	Simone Smith
Production companies	Mixtape VR Red Marrow Media Scythia Films Stellar Citizens
Distributed by	Mongrel Media Sierra/Affinity
Release date	13 March 2022 (2022-03-13) (SXSW)
Running time	86 Minutes
Country	Canada

Cast

• Tasiana Shirley as Maika
• Alexis Wolfe as Jesse
• Nalajoss Ellsworth as Uki
• Chelsea Prusky as Leena
• Frankie Vincent-Wolfe

Production

The concept for Slash/Back was first presented at the 2018 Frontières Co-Pro Market in Montréal, followed by the 2019 Frontières Finance and Packaging Forum in Helsinki and then the Marché du Film at the Cannes Film Festival, after which point Sierra/Affinity boarded the project as an international distributor.[2]

Principal photography took place on location on Baffin Island in summer 2019. It became the first production to film in the Inuit hamlet of Pangnirtung.[3] The area was already experiencing a housing shortage so production flew in fifty beds and set up accommodation for the crews in two local schools. Acting workshops were setup to find local girls to star in the film.[3]

Release

A first look still was revealed in March 2021.[4]

Slash/Back premiered at the 2022 South by Southwest Festival in Texas.[1] In Canada, it was the opening night film at the TIFF Next Wave Film Festival.[5]

On October 21, 2022 it was released in selected theatres and to video on demand service Vudu.[6][7]

Critical response

Barry Hertz of The Globe and Mail wrote that "the moments between can be rough, the result of a script whose last two acts can't reach the heights of its enticing conceit, a choppy sense of pacing that speeds up when it should slow down and vice versa, an amateur cast whose rawness is at odds with the story that they are enlisted with telling, and a no-frills visual-effects budget that robs the film of its central creature-feature thrills. There is, though, so much promise in every chilly inch of Innuksuk's vision, starting with her film’s firm sense of place – the director grew up in Nunavut, dreaming of darkness even when sunlight was 24/7 – and extending to how the director continues horror’s long tradition of sneaking in heavy themes that audiences might otherwise not so readily shoulder."[8]

On Metacritic it has a score of 69% based on reviews from 9 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[9]

Awards

The film was shortlisted for the Directors Guild of Canada's 2022 Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award.[10]

References

External links

• Slash/Back at IMDb
• Slash/Back at Library and Archives Canada

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