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Andrew Okpeaha MacLean (Writer/Director) is an 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 for Generations 14plus at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival; The FIPRESCI Prize for Best New American Film at the Seattle ...
Andrew Okpeaha MacLean is a film director and screenwriter creating works in international filmmaking arenas. His films are set in his homeland, shot on location in Barrow, Alaska, starring Iñupiat people. They are among the first feature films produced in the Iñupiaq language.
Nov 13, 2023 · In honor of Native American Heritage Month, we spoke with MacLean about how the storytelling traditions of the Iñupiat people continue to breathe life into his work today, and the importance of ushering in a new generation of energized Native storytellers at Tisch and beyond.
But that's exactly where filmmaker Andrew Okpeaha MacLean -- whose first feature-length film On the Ice was recently honored at the Berlin Film Festival -- first decided to step behind the camera. An Iñupiaq Eskimo, MacLean grew up mostly in Barrow and Fairbanks.
Jul 25, 2019 · For #ThrowbackThursday check out our interview with filmmaker Andrew Okpeaha MacLean (Iñupiaq Eskimo), which originally appeared in the 2011 NEA Arts magazine issue Up-and-Comers in the Arts.
Aug 22, 2011 · Andrew Okpeaha MacLean is an Iñupiaq filmmaker born and raised in Alaska. His short film Sikumi premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and his debut feature On the Ice screened at the 2011 Festival. Making a movie 320 miles north of the Arctic Circle is hard.
Jan 18, 2022 · Andrew Okpeaha MacLean got into filmmaking partly as a way to get in touch with his native language and culture, and partly as a way to keep it alive.
