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Andrew Okpeaha MacLean is a film director and screenwriter creating works in international filmmaking arenas. His films are set in his homeland, shot on location in Barrow, Alaska, starring Iñupiat people. They are among the first feature films produced in the Iñupiaq language. Andrew MacLean’s heritage is woven into how the characters make decisions, relate to each other and in how the plots develop. His work often explores paałaqtautaiññiq, a core value among his people which roughly translates as “non-violence” or “avoidance of conflict.” MacLean’s work examines how an individual and a community reacts to violence, identifying unique cultural responses to extreme situations. The Sundance Institute Native Film Program, a NACF capacity-building awardee, selected his first work, the short film Sikumi to be developed in the Producers Lab. MacLean’s first feature-length film, On the Ice, screened at the Sundance Film Festival and at select theaters throughout the country. With the support of an NACF Artist Fellowship in Film, MacLean began work on adapting the Iñuit story The Children of the Northern Lights (2013) for film. In the well-known story, a hunter sacrifices his own life to ensure the survival of the spirits of the Aurora Borealis. MacLean set the original legend in outer space, on a moon circling a distant planet. The story becomes an allegory for the choices we must make to ensure the survival of our own fragile world. (Native Arts & Cultures Foundation)
Camera Operator:
2011 Games of the North
Director:
2008 Sikumi (On the Ice)
2011 Games of the North
2011 On the Ice
2016 Feels Good
???? Children of the Northern Lights
???? Natchiliagniaqtuguk Aapagalu
Thanks:
2008 Sikumi (On the Ice)
2011 Games of the North
2011 On the Ice
2016 Feels Good
2020 Real Talk
???? Children of the Northern Lights
???? Natchiliagniaqtuguk Aapagalu
Writer:
2008 Sikumi (On the Ice)
2011 Games of the North
2011 On the Ice
2016 Feels Good
2020 Real Talk
???? Children of the Northern Lights
???? Natchiliagniaqtuguk Aapagalu
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