Angry Inuk has been voted winner of the Canada's Top Ten Film Festival People's Choice Award. TIFF's celebration of Canadian cinema, screen talent, and creativity crowned its people choice award winner, with Toronto audiences voting Alethea Arnaquq-Baril's documentary Angry Inuk their favourite pick from the festival's 10 feature films. Angry Inuk investigates the global anti-sealing movement's impact on Inuit communities. Director Arnaquq-Baril joins her fellow Inuit activists as they challenge outdated perceptions of Inuit and present themselves to the world as a modern people in dire need of a sustainable economy.
Commenting on winning the People's Choice Award, director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril said, "I want to say thank you to everyone who came out and saw Angry Inuk and was willing to open their hearts and minds to a perspective that they have not seen before. We are heading into our European and American premieres in the next couple of weeks so this is wonderful news to receive."
Watch Alethea's full acceptance speech here:
https://youtu.be/M0NG9nG-wJ0
Canada's Top Ten Film Festival presents a programme of screenings, special events and a collection of unique Canadian film moments. Zacharias Knuck's Maliglutuit (Searchers) opened the festival on January 13th at TIFF Bell Lightbox to a sell-out crowd; and the festival's showcase of innovative and original films featured prominent guests including Johnny Ma, Ashley McKenzie, Gordon Pinsent, Atom Egoyan, Jennifer Baichwal, Michael Snow and many more.
This year's Canada's Top Ten lineup includes movies from British Columbia to Nunavut to
NOVA Scotia. The festival's growing national scope continues its expansion with audiences in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Regina, Edmonton and Saskatoon seeing a selection of the year's best Canadian feature films, shorts and student shorts this week. Canada's Top Ten Film Festival travels to Winnipeg, Halifax and Ottawa throughout the spring. More about details about the national tour can be found on TIFF.net and in local listings.
The festival's programme also included full day industry session; three In-conversation With... events; a series of free Canada on Screen classic titles celebrating the Sesquicentennial; and Canada's Top Ten Film Festival officially draws to a close on Thursday 26th of January with a special TIFF Members screening of Nathan Morlando's Mean Dreams, in partnership with Movie Nights Across Canada, with guests director Nathan Morlando and stars Colm Feore and Sophie Nélisse among the VIP guests attending.
