Inuit, Arctic films big winners at 2016 imagineNATIVE festival
Awards show hosted by CBC Unreserved host Rosanna Deerchild and Canadian actor and comedian Craig Lauzon
Works by Inuit and Arctic artists were big winners at this year's imagineNATIVE film and media arts festival, which wrapped up in Toronto this weekend.
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Nunavut Inuit filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril's documentary Angry Inuk, which opened the festival, took home the Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award, while Zacharias Kunuk's feature film Maliglutit (Searchers) was awarded Best Indigenous Language Production.
Full list of winners
Best Short Drama
UFO Directed by Gregory King
$1,000 cash award presented by imagineNATIVE's board of directors
Best Drama Pitch
Jamaine Campbell for Bring it Back Home
Best Documentary Pitch
Sonya Ballantyne for Eagle Girl
NFB/imagineNATIVE Interactive Partnership
Red Card Project by Cara Mumford
Best Music Video
We Are Still Here directed by and featuring the music of Sofia Jannok
Kent Monkman Best Experimental Prize
Dolastallat directed by Marja Helander
Best Short Documentary
Cree Code Talker directed by Alexandra Lazarowich
Best Audio Work
The Story She Carries created by Angela Sterritt
Best Digital Media Work
Tracey Rector for her immersive VR experience Ch'aak' S'aagi (Eagle Bone)
Cynthia Lickers-Sage Award for Best Canadian Short Drama
God's Acre directed by Kelton Stepanowich
Best Indigenous Language Production
Maliglutit (Searchers) directed by Zacharias Kunuk and co-directed by Natar Ungalaaq
Ellen Monague Award for the Best Youth Work
Smoke That Travels directed by Kayla Briët
Jane Glassco Award for Emerging Talent
Ohero:kon — Under the Husk directed by Katsitsionni Fox
Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award
Angry Inuk directed by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
Best Dramatic Feature
Bonfire directed by Dmitrii Davydov
August Schellenberg Award of Excellence
Tom Jackson