Alethea Arnaquq-Baril

Alethea Arnaquq-Baril is an Inuk filmmaker. She is known for producing and directing films about Inuit culture. Arnaquq-Baril operates Unikkaat Studios, a production company in Iqaluit, Nunavut and is president of the Ajjiit Nunavut Media Association.

Arnaquq-Baril graduated from 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. She studied film at NSCAD University.

Arnaquq-Baril's animated short Lumaajuuq: The Blind Boy and the Loon won best Canadian Short Drama at the imagineNATIVE festival in 2010. as well as the Golden Sheaf Award for Best Aboriginal category at the Yorkton Film Festival.

Her documentary Tunnit: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos, screened at the 2011 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto. The film follows her efforts to uncover information about the designs and processes of creating tattoos in the Arctic, and their place in the Innuit culture of past generations.

Arnaquq-Baril released the short film Aviliaq in 2014. Like many of her films, it speaks to issues in Innuit life, in this case family life before colonial times.

Arnaquq-Baril's 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. It was later screen at several film festivals. On December 1, 2016, she received the DOC Vanguard Award from the Documentary Organization of Canada.Angry Inuk was also included in the list of "Canada's Top Ten" feature films of 2016, selected by a panel of filmmakers and industry professionals organized by TIFF.

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