Alethea Arnaquq-Baril - Andrea Maiuri
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Innuk Filmmaker and owner of Unikkaat Studios
Alethea
by Andrea Maiuri
Arnaquq-Baril
Awards
Biggest Impact
Contributions to the dramatic arts
Early life
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Her mother is an Inuk teacher with a Masters in Education, who inspired her to preserve and promote the Inuit language and culture. Her father was a radio broadcaster and later a senior manager in Information Technology.She began studying mathematics at the Universityof Watrerloo, ON but then transfered to Sheridan Collefge in Ontario, where she gratuated in illustration and art fundamentals.Later, she received animation training at the Banff Centre in a program offered by the National Film Board of Canada.She works as a director, producer and animator. Besides, she runs a film production company called Unikkaat Studios Inc.
Alethea Aggiuq Arnaquq-Baril was borned and raised in Frobisher Bay, Northwest Territories; now, Iqaluit, Nuvanut.
Inuit High Kick
Tunniit
Lumaajuuq
A short documentary of the Inuik athlete Johnny Issaluk perfoming a one-foot high kick in slow motion.
A documentary that examines and explain the tradition face tattooing among Inuit women
The first animated short film that she wrote and directed. It was an adaptation of a traditional Inuit story, The Blind Man and the Loon.
he began her film career in 2008 as a producer with the documentary James Houston: The Most Interesting Group of People You'll Ever Meet; and as a co-producer of The Experimental Eskimos in 2009.
Contributions to the dramatic arts
2010
2010
2009
Contributions to the dramatic arts
Aviliaq: Entwined (2014)
A drama short film set in the 1950s that tells the story of two Inuit lesians struggling to stay together after one of them is forced to get married by the colonizators.
Angry Inuk (2016)
Since the film's release, the public opinion slowly shifted and the conversation on the seal hunt has changed. Fullfilling Alethea's aim of spreading Inuit knoledge and perspective to the outside world.
Her most recognised work, a full-length film where she adressed the negative publicity commercial seal hunting has received and the activist organizations trying to stop it, presenting an Inuit perspective and showing the importance that the seal hunt had and still have to Inuit survival.
Biggest Impact
Lumaajuuq
Won best Canadian Short Drama at thhe imagineNATIVE Festival in 2010
Angry Inuk
Arnaquq-Baril
Awards
Named by the Toronto International Film Festival as one of Canada's most important and influential women filmmakers.
Received the Video On Demand Audiece Award, along with others Audience Choice awards. It was also winner of the Social Justice Award in the Santa Barbara INternational Film Festival
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