North of North comedy creators Alethea Arnaquq-Baril and Stacey Aglok MacDonald will receive the Breakthrough Award at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Canada gala event on May 28.
The creative duo are showrunners and executive producers for the Netflix, CBC and APTN series set in Canada’s Arctic and around its tight-knit Inuit culture. The comedy — led by Anna Lambe as Siaja, a 20-something Inuit woman making her way as a plucky civil servant after a spontaneous and very public breakup with her entitled husband — is now in its second season.
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“Beyond North of North, Arnaquq-Baril and Aglok MacDonald have consistently demonstrated the ability to bring bold, original perspectives to the screen while creating space for underserved voices and communities to be seen and heard. It is this combination of vision, impact, and forward momentum that makes them such deserving recipients of
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