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]
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.[7]
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
- 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.
- 1 2 "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.
- ↑ "Alethea Arnaquq-Baril". National Museum of the American Indian. Retrieved 2016-03-19.