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| Directed by | Alethea Arnaquq-Baril |
| Written by | Alethea Arnaquq-Baril |
| Produced by | Alethea Arnaquq-Baril |
| Cinematography | Qajaaq Ellsworth |
| Edited by | Sophie Farkas Bolla |
| Music by | Florencia Di Concilio |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | Inuktitut |
Angry Inuk is a 2016 Canadian Inuit-themed feature-length documentary film written and directed by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril that defends the Inuit seal hunt, as the hunt is a vital means for Inuit 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 Iqaluit, as well as Kimmirut and Pangnirtung, where seal hunting is 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 ignoring the needs of vulnerable northern communities who depend on hunting for their livelihoods by drawing a false distinction between subsistence-driven Inuit hunters and profit-driven commercial hunters.[1][2]
- ^ Mullen, Patrick (11 May 2016). "Review: 'Angry Inuk'". Point of View. Documentary Organization of Canada. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
- ^ Cole, Susan G. (29 April 2016). "Angry Inuk". Now Magazine. Retrieved 9 September 2016.