Inuit have been featured as film subjects for nearly a century, beginning with Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North from 1922. But how does one approach the community today in a changing industry that is increasingly demanding authenticity and diverse representation in filmmaking teams? Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, whose documentary Angry Inuk won the Canada's Top Ten Film Festival People's Choice Award in 2017, provides critical insight into how to tell stories with humility while looking to the future of contemporary Indigenous storytelling.

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Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril is an award-winning Inuit filmmaker based in Iqaluit, where she runs her production company Unikkaat Studios. Her credits include Inuit High Kick (09), Tunniit: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos (11), the animated short Seven Sins: Sloth (11), which was one of 15 shorts selected for Telefilm's Perspective Canada screenings at the Cannes Film Market, Lumaajuuq: The Blind Boy and the Loon (10), and Aviliaq: Entwined(14). Arnaquq-Baril was an executive producer on Miranda de Pencier's award-winning Throat Song (13), and co-produced the documentaries Experimental Eskimos (09) and Arctic Defenders (13). Angry Inuk (16) is her latest documentary.

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