2017
Search results
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril MSC (born May 9, 1978) is an Inuk filmmaker, known for her work on Inuit life and culture. She is the owner of Unikkaat Studios, a production company in Iqaluit, which produces Inuktitut films. She was awarded the Canadian Meritorious Service Cross, in 2017 in recognition of her work as an activist and filmmaker. She ...
Feb 2, 2024 · Alethea Arnaquq-Baril is an Inuit filmmaker who uses film to record, preserve and share Inuit oral traditions, knowledge, language and culture. Her films promote and advocate for Inuit ways of life and highlight issues that Inuit face.
Apr 9, 2021 · In December 2016, Arnaquq-Baril was honoured with the DOC Vanguard Award for her latest documentary, Angry Inuk. The activist film challenges perceptions of seal hunting and sheds light on its central role in Inuit culture and hope for global economic viability.
Sep 12, 2017 · Alethea Aggiuq Arnaquq-Baril is an independent filmmaker based in Iqaluit, NU. Raised by a mother who was “passionate about preserving and promoting [Inuit] language and culture,” Arnaquq-Baril was influenced to work to be a voice for Inuit through her films [1].
Sep 13, 2023 · In this Q&A, the team behind Twice Colonized discusses how they're working to decolonize documentary production. Featuring Alethea Arnaquq-Baril (producer), Stacey Aglok MacDonald (producer...
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 ...
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril. In 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.
Jun 6, 2024 · Nunavut filmmakers Alethea Arnaquq-Baril and Stacey Aglok MacDonald are known for tackling difficult issues in their work about life in Inuit Nunangat, such as in The Grizzlies, Twice...
Sep 8, 2016 · Arnaquq-Baril and her cameras travel through the Canadian Arctic to hear from the people the animal activists rarely bother to meet—the hunters, the craftspeople, the families for whom the seal hunt is a critical part of their livelihood and survival―and follow a group of students to Europe where they plead the Inuit case before a European ...
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril | Arctic Defenders | A Story of Visionary Inuit Who Had A Dream - The Creation Of Nunavut. My name is Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, and my company is Unikkaat Studios Inc. I’m based in Iqaluit, the capital of the Nunavut Territory in the arctic of Canada, where I was born and raised.
