Photo: Inuk filmmaker receives recognition for recent work

Montreal-based filmmaker Isabella Weetaluktuk, who now uses her Inuktitut name Asinnajaq for her filmmaking and art work, picks up the Toronto Film Critics Association’s Technicolour Clyde Gilmour Award at the association’s Jan. 9 award gala. The honour was awarded to Nunavut filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk in December, but as part of the pay-it-forward terms of the award, Kunuk passed along the $50,000 prize to Asinnajaq, who completed her short film Three Thousand in 2016. Asinnajaq, whose family hails from Inukjuak, is a graduate of Halifax’s Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She currently works for the National Film Board. That’s where she mined old stock footage and documentaries shot in the North to piece together Three Thousand, which features a blend of animation and live-action scenes. Read more on Nunatsiaqonline.ca. (PHOTO COURTESY OF NFB)