First, I would like to say thank you to everyone for signing, sharing, and donating to this petition.

So, a couple weeks ago I came across a content creator that was trying to promote his 'new story' that he was making. He had posted some teasers for the film as well as the budget that he spent on it. In the videos he made leading up to the release date not ONCE did he mention Inuit or where he got the story from. (I watched the videos as you can see to gain some information as to what he was trying to do.) 

Only after receiving backlash for stealing our story did, he mention "Inuit natives" (This is the equivalent of saying Chai tea- Tea tea) as the 'inspiration for his short film. He himself only mentions the title of the film once in all 3 videos (He had one posted on his Instagram story where he pronounced it incorrectly and deleted it right away). 

When the short film was released, everyone started to question "Where is this story from?" "It actually cost 20k to make this?" to where he starts to respond very childishly to these people on his Instagram post trying to promote the release. We tried to contact him respectfully and peacefully about the wrongdoings and the misconception of the Qallupalik, to where he responds by saying "I will not give any statements on this matter for the safety of myself and my family... I have learned from this that Inuit natives are hostile and aggressive people." To where rightfully so we start to get upset because he does something to agitate us then calls aggressive and hostile. 

In the short story he made he claims that "It is a creature that lives in oceans, lakes, and pools. And that it will take misbehaving children and fed on their youth." This isn't how the story goes. There aren't even pools in Nunavut that are in the ground where this creature is supposed to live. There also aren't trees. The story goes that the Qallupalik lives under the frozen icy ocean, when kids or teens start to go near the cracking ice and jumping from berg to berg the Qallupalik takes these kids in its Amauti down deep under the frozen water never to be seen again. This was created hundreds of years ago to keep kids away from the dangerous ice during spring when it starts to break. Not to scare underage drinking in a pool on a kid's camp... 

If you would also like to do your own research on this story, I highly suggest reading Rober Munch's 'A promise is a promise' This is the proper story for the Qallupalik and had Inuit collaboration done by Michael Kusugak a highly respected writer in the North. 

I then had Nunatsiaq News reach out to me to get my statement on the matter and to understand why I created this petition in the first place. Once this article is released, I will share another update with the link to the article.