Angry Inuk Wins Audience Award for Hot Docs
Director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril’s feature documentary Angry Inuk is the winner of the 2016 Hot Docs Festival Vimeo On Demand Audience Award and a $25,000 cash prize. As the highest rated independently-produced feature-length Canadian documentary with a Canadian director, Angry Inuk was also the winner of the Canadian Documentary Promotion Award. The film, which was met with standing ovations at all three of its screenings at the festival, follows widely-respected Inuk activist Aaju Peter and the broader impacts of animal rights groups’ anti-sealing campaigns as well as the 2009 European Union sealskin ban. An eight-year endeavour for Arnaquq-Baril, the director commented on the films reception, noting, “It’s so rewarding to have rooms of hundreds of people standing up and thanking us and understanding how we see the world.”