Experimental Documentary
2026

Tuktuit :
Caribou

Key Art Trailer Sundance Social Campaign

Director

Lindsay McIntyre

Production

Tiny Moving Pictures

Runtime

15 min · Inuktitut & English

The Brief

A film processed with the land it was shot on.

Tuktuit: Caribou is a 15-minute experimental documentary by Inuk filmmaker Lindsay McIntyre, shot on 16mm in Nunavut. It follows the ties between Inuit, caribou, and lichen on land where the herds are losing ground.

McIntyre processed the film herself. Caribou hide from her home territory of Qamani'tuaq was rendered into gelatin for handmade emulsion, and lichen gathered from the land became the developer that brought the images up. She has made almost fifty films this way, nearly all on 16mm, treating the medium itself as her material.

It is, in part, a way for me to honour my anaanatsiaq and ataatatsiaq, and what it took to make it possible for me to be in the world.

Lindsay McIntyre

We came on ahead of Sundance to build the film's public face: the key art, the trailer, and the campaign that carried it through the festival.

The Approach

Start with the material.

Most campaigns reach for a still and a tagline. This one had something better to work with. The hide, the lichen, the hand-poured emulsion, the texture sitting on the surface of every frame. We treated that texture as the language and built everything from it.

We designed the key art and the poster from the film's own frames, holding the title back so the image reads first. We cut the trailer to move through light and sound rather than plot, letting each frame sit long enough to be felt, and prepared it for the screen and for the phone.

The Sundance campaign ran 21 days, from just before the festival through the final screening. Twenty-six pieces went out across feed and Stories, built around the process, the land, and the screenings themselves. We rebuilt the profile first, so a first-time visitor understood the film in seconds, then carried the account daily through the run. The closer the work stayed to the hide and the land, the further it travelled.

Sundance's own channels reshared our Stories during the festival. The campaign gave the account its most viewed posts to date and its most played reel, and Lindsay left Park City with her profile raised.

The Work

Key Art

Theatrical Poster

Festival

Sundance Premiere

Social

Sundance Campaign

Social

Process Film · Caribou Hide Emulsion

Outcomes

2026

Official Selection, Documentary Short Film Program, Sundance Film Festival

25+

Film festival selections worldwide

5

Sold-out screenings in Park City, Sundance's final year there

Encourages deep listening, beyond voice or sound.

Festival Programme · 2026

My practice is really an engagement with failure.

Lindsay McIntyre · Director

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