Iñupiaq filmmaker born and raised in Alaska. His feature film debut On the Ice premiered at Sundance 2011 and won Best First Feature and the Crystal Bear in Generation 14plus at the 2011 Berlinale. His short film Sikumi premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking. Other films include Seal Hunting With Dad, The Snaring Madman, Such A Perfect Day, and When The Season Is Good: Artists Of Arctic Alaska, a feature documentary. In 2008, he was named one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film by 'Filmmaker Magazine'.
Berlinale
