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When a giant international brewery uses a small Canadian Inuit village to stage a massive promotion for beer?

When they book some of the biggest names in contemporary rock? when they fly 500 contest winners from across North America on an all-expenses paid junket to Tuktoyaktuk for an intimate concert on the shores of the Arctic Ocean? ...

A lot of weirdness, basically.

International media, dozens of beer executives and hundreds of party-goers rained down on Tuktoyaktuk in a bizarre cavalcade of equipment, flash and beer reminiscent of white man's first contact with the North. Tuktoyaktuk, where you can drink alcohol but can't buy it, was forced to confront the mixed blessings of publicity, tourism and alcohol.

Invasion of the Beer People, a fast paced and imaginative documentary, deals with a spectacular media event in a spectacular location. Is the Polar Beach Party indeed "rock and roll history", or merely another example of a massive marketing strategy designed simply to sell beer -- Ice beer at that?

Four Hi-8 cameras, an eclectic crew from both the North and South, an editor enticed back from Peru, and over 3 weeks spent in Tuktoyaktuk and nearby Inuvik are some of the ingrediants hat went into this fun-filled, provocative Nutaaq Media production charting Canada's ever-mysterious North.