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6-443: Three Thousand is a 2017 Canadian documentary film written and directed by Asinnajaq . Mixing animation with archival footage, the film explores the cinematic representation of Inuit . The 14 minute documentary dives into the past, present, and future of Inuit "in a new light". The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Short Documentary Film at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards . This article related to
12-449: A Canadian documentary film of the 2010s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Asinnajaq asinnajaq (born 1991) is a Canadian Inuk visual artist, writer, filmmaker, and curator, from Inukjuak , Quebec . She is most noted for her 2017 film Three Thousand , which received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Short Documentary Film at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards . She has also been active as
18-652: A curator of Inuit art and video projects, including the Canadian pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale and the Inuit Art Centre at the Winnipeg Art Gallery . Isabella Rose Rowan-Weetaluktuk was born in Inukjuak, Nunavik in 1991. The name asinnajaq is a family name that means “nomadic outlier” in the local Inuktitut dialect. Her mother, Carol Rowan, is a university professor, while her father, Jobie Weetaluktuk,
24-637: Is a filmmaker. She studied film at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design at the university in Halifax. She assisted her father on Timuti (2012), a film he made in Inukjuak , home of their extended family. She is the niece of Daniel Weetaluktuk, the first Inuk archeologist in Canada, who is the subject of her upcoming short film Daniel . Through her artistic work, asinnajaq draws her inspiration from
30-583: The McCord Museum with her mother. Asinnajaq was also part of the curatorial team at the Canadian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale . In 2020 Asinnajaq received a Sobey Art Award . In 2024, asinnajaq became the guest curator for the exhibition ᐆᒻᒪᖁᑎᒃ uummaqutik: essence of life at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts , presenting selections from the museum's collection of Inuit art. asinnajaq
36-573: The notion of respect for human rights, and the desire to explore her Inuit heritage. Her practice is grounded in research and collaboration. Her short film Upinnaqusittik , made in 2016, premiered at iNuit Blanche, the first ever circumpolar arts festival in St. John's . While working for the National Film Board , drawing on their archives, she directed her film Three Thousand in 2017. Alongside her artistic work, she has led Inuit culture workshops at
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