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Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
Harnessing the persuasive power of cinema, Inuk filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril has crafted award-winning films about Inuit life and culture such as Lumaajuuq and Tunniit: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos. Her 2016 feature documentary, Angry Inuk, a spirited defence of seal hunting from an Inuk perspective, has generated worldwide interest and debate, winning audience awards at both Hot Docs and the 2017 edition of TIFF’s Canada’s Top 10. “Activist cinema at its best,” says Toronto’s Now magazine. Arnaquq-Baril runs her own production company, Unikkaat Studios, in Iqaluit, Nunavut.
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Nunavut Animation Lab: LumaajuuqAlethea Arnaquq-Baril 2010 7 minThis animated short by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril tells a tragic and twisted story about the dangers of revenge. A cruel mother mistreats her son, feeding him dog meat and forcing him to sleep in the cold. A loon, who tells the boy that his mother blinded him, helps the child regain his eyesight. Then the boy seeks revenge, releasing his mother's lifeline as she harpoons a whale and watching her drown. Based on a portion of the epic Inuit legend "The Blind Boy and the Loon." -
Angry InukAlethea Arnaquq-Baril 2016 1 h 22 minIn her award-winning documentary, director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril joins a new tech-savvy generation of Inuit as they campaign to challenge long-established perceptions of seal hunting. Armed with social media and their own sense of humour and justice, this group is bringing its own voice into the conversation and presenting themselves to the world as a modern people in dire need of a sustainable economy.
