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100% Rotten Tomatoes Director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril Cinematography Qajaaq Ellsworth | 8/10 IMDb Initial release 2 May 2016 Screenplay Alethea Arnaquq-Baril | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Producers Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Bonnie Thompson Similar Hello Destroyer, Window Horses, Mean Dreams, Aviliaq: Entwined, Arctic Defenders | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Angry inuk trailer canada s top ten
Angry Inuk is a 2016 Canadian feature-length documentary film written and directed by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril that defends the Inuit seal hunt, arguing the hunt is a vital means for Inuit peoples to sustain themselves. Subjects in Angry Inuk include Arnaquq-Baril herself as well as Aaju Peter, an Inuit seal hunt advocate, lawyer and seal fur clothing designer who depends on the sealskins for her livelihood. Partially shot in the filmmaker's home community of Kimmirut, where seal hunting is seen as essential for survival, the film follows Peter and other Inuit to Europe in an effort to have the EU Ban on Seal Products overturned. The film also criticizes NGOs such as Greenpeace and the International Fund for Animal Welfare for championing animal rights while ignoring the needs of vulnerable northern communities who depend on the hunt for their livelihoods.
Contents
- Angry inuk trailer canada s top ten
- Meet the filmmaker behind angry inuk
- Development
- Release and reception
- References
Meet the filmmaker behind angry inuk
Development
Angry Inuk was co-produced by Arnaquq-Baril and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in association with EyeSteelFilm.
Release and reception
Angry Inuk premiered May 2, 2016 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. In October 2016, the film received the Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto. The following month, it received both the Women Inmates’ Prize and the Magnus Isacsson Award at the Montreal International Documentary Festival. On December 7, 2016, Angry Inuk was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual Canada's Top 10 list, and took home the People's Choice Award at the TIFF Canada's Top Ten Festival.
While Arnaquq-Baril has stated that the anti-sealing movement has forced Inuit to turn to the mining and the natural gas industry to support themselves, with dire consequences for the Arctic environment, supporters of the EU ban on seal products have countered that such a ban does not block Inuit from seal hunting to sustain themselves and supply market demand. This however is not possible when bans are in place. Without the commercial hunt, hunters can't afford to hunt to sustain themselves.