Saguenay international
short film festival

Synopsis

Set in a 1950’s Inuit community, Aviliaq tells the story of two Inuit lesbians struggling to stay together in a new world run by outsiders.

Production :
Unikaat Studios
Distribution :
Unikaat Studios
Contact :
Camera :
QAJAAQ ELLSWORTH
Music :
CHRIS COLEMAN and PAUL SCHROFEL
Screenplay :
Dallas Varcoe
Editing :
Maureen Grant

Direction
  • Alethea Arnaquq-Baril

    Award-winning filmmaker who works in documentary and animation. Her work has been broadcast on CBC and APTN and has traveled extensively to festivals. In 2010, her NFB animation Lumaajuug won the Best Canadian Short Drama at imagineNATIVE, and in 2011, her animated short film Sloth was selected for Telefilm’s Not Short on Talent showcase at Cannes. Most recently, she was an executive producer on the short film Throat Song that screened at TIFF and also made the 2014 Academy Awards short list.