Alethea
​Arnaquq-Baril

Alethea is an Inuit filmmaker from the Canadian arctic where she runs Unikkaat Studios Inc. Alethea directed and produced award-winning Angry Inuk (2016 Unikkaat/NFB co-production in association with EyeSteelFilm) a feature doc for broadcast on Superchannel about how Inuit are coming up with new and provocative ways to deal with international seal hunting controversies. Angry Inuk premiered at Hot Docs, the largest documentary festival in North America, taking home the Audience Choice Award.
 
Alethea’s previous work includes her award-winning mid-length APTN documentary Tunniit: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos, in which Alethea spoke with elders across Nunavut about Inuit tattoos and their near disappearance, before getting her own traditional face tattoos.
 
She also directed short films such as the well-traveled Inuit High Kick, the NFB animation “Lumaajuuq: The Blind Boy and the Loon” which won Best Canadian Short Drama at imagineNATIVE 2010 and the Golden Sheaf Award for Best Aboriginal Film at the Yorkton 2011 Festival, and the short drama Aviliaq: Entwined, a lesbian love story set in the 1950’s, as part of the Embargo Project (ImagineNATIVE 2014).

Time & Location


Wonderbolt Theatre 
72 Harbour Dr, St. John's, NL
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7:00 - 10:00 PM