Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril is an Inuk filmmaker.[1] She is known for producing and directing films about Inuit culture. Arnaquq-Baril operates Unikkaat Studios, a production company in Iqaluit, Canada and is president of the Ajjiit Nunavut Media Association.[2][3]
Arnaquq-Baril's animated short Lumaajuuq: The Blind Boy and the Loon and her documentary Tunnit: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos, screened at the 2011 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto.[4] Lumaajuuq won best Canadian Short Drama at the festival,[5] as well as the Golden Sheaf Award for Best Aboriginal category at the Yorkton Film Festival.[6] Her 2016 documentary film Angry Inuk premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, where the film received the Vimeo On Demand Audience Award along with the Canadian Documentary Promotion Award.[7]
Arnaquq-Baril is a member of the Board of Directors of the Nunavut Film Development Corporation.[2] A graduate of Sheridan College’s program in illustration, she also completed animation training at the Banff Centre in a program offered by the National Film Board of Canada.[8] She studied film at NSCAD University.[9]
Filmography
Producer
- The Embargo Project (2015)
- Aviliaq: Entwined (2014)
- Arctic Defenders (2013)
- Throat Song (2011)
- Tunnit: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos (2010)
- The Experimental Eskimos (2009)
- James Houston: The Most Interesting Group of People You'll Ever Meet (2009)
Director and Screenwriter
- Angry Inuk (2016)
- The Embargo Project (2015)
- Aviliaq: Entwined (2014)
- Seven Sins: Sloth (2011)
- Tunnit: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos (2010)
- Lumaajuuq (2009)
References
- ^ "Alethea Arnaquq-Baril". CBC. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
- ^ a b "Artists - Albea Arnaquq-Baril". Qaggiavuut Performing Arts Centre. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
- ^ "Tracing the lines of identity: an impromptu conversation about Inuit face tattoos - NFB/blog". National Film Board Blog. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
- ^ "Alethea Arnaquq-Baril". ImagiNATIVE Film Festival. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
- ^ "ImagiNATIVE 2010". CBC. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
- ^ "Nunavit Animation Lab". National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
- ^ "'Angry Inuk' wins audience award and $25K prize at Hot Docs festival". CBC News. 10 May 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
- ^ "Alethea Arnaquq-Baril". National Museum of the American Indian. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
- ^ Gaul, Ashleigh (20 July 2015). "Between the Lines". Up Here. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
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