Inuit, Arctic films big winners at 2016 imagineNATIVE festival

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.

Awards show hosted by CBC Unreserved host Rosanna Deerchild and Canadian actor and comedian Craig Lauzon

CBC News Posted: Oct 24, 2016 4:34 PM EDT | Last Updated: October 24, 2016

Alanis Obomsawin with Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, who won the Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award.

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.

Nunavut Inuit filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril'sdocumentary 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.

ImagineNATIVE hosts Rosanna Deerchild and actor/comedian Craig Lauzon have some fun. (Facebook)

Best Dramatic Feature went to Russian filmmaker Dmitrii Davidov's film Bonfire, a drama set in the world of the Yakut Indigenous people of Siberia.

The awards were handed out in Toronto on Saturday, at a ceremony co-hosted by CBC Unreserved host Rosanna Deerchild and Canadian actor and comedian Craig Lauzon.

Other winners include CBC's Angela Sterritt, who won for her radio documentary The Story She Carries.

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 andfeaturing the music of Sofia Jannok

Kent Monkman Best Experimental Prize
Dolastallatdirected by Marja Helander

Best Short Documentary
Cree Code Talkerdirected by Alexandra Lazarowich

Best Audio Work
The Story She Carriescreated 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 Acredirected by Kelton Stepanowich

Best Indigenous Language Production
Maliglutit (Searchers)directed by Zacharias Kunukandco-directed by Natar Ungalaaq

Ellen Monague Award for the Best Youth Work
Smoke That Travelsdirected by Kayla Brit

Jane Glassco Award for Emerging Talent
Ohero:kon Under the Huskdirected by Katsitsionni Fox

Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award
Angry Inukdirected by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril

Best Dramatic Feature
Bonfiredirected by Dmitrii Davydov

August Schellenberg Award of Excellence
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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

Full list of winners

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