CBC, Netflix and APTN, in collaboration with Iqaluit-based Red Marrow Media and Toronto’s Northwood Entertainment, have revealed the director and lead cast for their upcoming untitled Arctic comedy series.

The first episode of the 10 x 30-minute series will be directed by Anya Adams (pictured), acclaimed for her work on Yellowjackets, Ginny & Georgia and Black-ish. Adams has also signed on as producing director of the series.

Anna Lambe, known for her roles in True Detective, Trickster and The Grizzlies, will star in the series as a young Inuk mother who strives to build a new future for herself, while Keira Cooper, a seven-year-old Inuk actress from Iqaluit, Nunavut, will make her screen debut as Lambe’s on-screen daughter.

Set in a small Arctic town, the series is created and written by Inuit writer Stacey Aglok MacDonald and filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril. Executive producers are Arnaquq-Baril, Aglok MacDonald, Miranda de Pencier, Susan Coyne  and Garry Campbell. Filming is scheduled to begin in Nunavut in spring 2024.

Lambe is repped by LBI Entertainment, Integral Artists and law firm Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman, Rubenstein, Kohner, Endlich, Goodell & Gellman. Adams, meanwhile, is repped by Greg Pedicin and Katy McCaffrey at Gersh, Greg Walter and Jermaine Johnson at 3 Arts and Grace Kallis at Ginsburg Daniels.

Image courtesy of CBC