November 2006
 Filmmaker
Andrew Okpeaha MacLean (Inupiat) is the director of
the feature documentary When the Season Is Good: Artists of
Arctic Alaska, produced for the Alaska Native Arts Foundation,
which premiered in 2004 at the Smithsonian Institution's National
Museum of Natural History. He has also directed five shorts, including
Natchiliagniaqtuguk Aapagalu/Seal Hunting with Dad, which
premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, and was named one
of the ten best short films at the festival by IndieWire. In 2004
MacLean was a recipient of the Martin E. Segal Prize for Film
at New York University. He has worked as a videographer for the
Alaska Native Education Program. MacLean, who is the co-founder
of the Inupiat Theatre in Barrow, Alaska, directs and writes plays,
including Iliappaglu Tulukkaglu/The Poor Hunter and the Ravens.
He co-founded and served as the artistic director of Stickfigure
Productions, a theater company in Seattle, Washington. MacLean
is a member of the Little Kupaaq whaling crew in his hometown
of Barrow. He received his BA in Theater from the University of
Washington and is an MFA student in film production at New York
University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
"I am interested in making films that examine where we have
come from, who we are now, and who we are becoming as Native people,
and as human beings."
Screened by NMAI
Image credit: Andrew
Okpeaha MacLean - courtesy of the filmmaker
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