Barrow film honored at Sundance festival (fwd link)

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Barrow film honored at Sundance festival

Inupiaq-language drama can be viewed online today

By SARAH HENNING
shenning at adn.com | shenning at adn.com

Published: January 26th, 2008 12:12 AM
Last Modified: January 26th, 2008 04:40 AM

Last April, Andrew Okpeaha MacLean and his film crew were shooting on location
just outside Barrow, keeping a wary eye out for polar bears, stuffing
theatrical blood down their pants to stop it from congealing.

This week, MacLean is rubbing shoulders with filmmaking icons such as Quentin
Tarantino at the career-making Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

MacLean's short feature film "Sikumi (On the Ice)," about an Inupiaq hunter who
witnesses a murder, was one of 83 shorts chosen from a field of 5,000. It's his
second film shown at Sundance.

Full article linnk below:
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/294554.html