Sophie Proulx Lachance

In her new documentary, Elisapie Isaac takes us on a visual and musical jaunt across the country, meeting the people who inspired the songs on her latest album, The Ballad of the Runaway Girl.

A documentary film exploring an untold part of Canada’s past through the eyes of Inuk artist and filmmaker Elisapie Isaac. After facing a moral dilemma, Elisapie sets out to meet others who, like her, are “Hudson Baybies,” the children born of the mixed unions between Indigenous women and Hudson’s Bay Company employees working in trading posts and general stores across the North.