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Indigenous Canadian filmmakers confront alcoholism, other issues in community

Alcohol abuse is a serious public health issue in indigenous communities in the Canadian arctic, but it’s a difficult topic to address. For the next several weeks, we’ll bring you the stories from Yellowknife in Canada’s Northwest Territories — stories produced, directed and told by indigenous people themselves, as part of “Turning Points”, an empowerment journalism project, in partnership with The Global Reporting Centre.

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