‘Angry Inuk’ wins people’s choice award at Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival

TORONTO – “Angry Inuk” has been crowned winner of the people’s choice award at Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival.

The organization that runs the Toronto International Film Festival selected the documentary as one of 10 homegrown features in the lineup for the event, which concludes on Thursday.

In “Angry Inuk,” filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril explores the worldwide anti-sealing movement and the impact on Inuit communities.

In an interview with The Canadian Press last year, she expressed hope that filmgoers would recognize the important role the Inuit play in the commercial seal skin market, and noted that the majority of hunters are dependent on sales for their livelihoods.

Other films in contention were Montreal filmmaker Xavier Dolan’s Oscar hopeful “It’s Only the End of the World,” as well as “Hello Destroyer,” “Maliglutit (Searchers),” “Mean Dreams,” “Nelly,” “Old Stone,” “Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves,” “Werewolf” and “Window Horses.”

Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival will travel to Winnipeg, Halifax and Ottawa throughout the spring.