Putuguq and Kublu and the Qalupalik!

About Danny ChristopherRoselynn Akulukjuk

Roselynn Akulukjuk was born in Pangnirtung Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic. In 2012 Roselynn moved to Toronto to pursue a career in film and attend the Toronto Film School where she fell in love with being behind the camera. After finishing her studies and working in Toronto Roselynn returned home to Nunavut where she began working with Taqqut Productions an Inuit-owned production company located in the capital of Nunavut Iqaluit. Part of Roselynns love of filmmaking is the ability to interview elders listen to their traditional stories and share them with the world. In 2015 Roselynn wrote and directed her first film the live-action and puppetry short The Owl and the Lemming on which her book by the same title is based. Her film won Best Animation at the 2016 American Indian Film Festival. Danny Christopher has travelled throughout the Canadian Arctic as an instructor for Nunavut Arctic College. He is the illustrator of The Legend of the Fog A Childrens Guide to Arctic Birds and Animals Illustrated: Polar Bear and author of Putuguq and Kublu. His work on The Legend of the Fog was nominated for the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustration Award. He lives in Toronto with his wife four children and two dogs. Astrid Arijanto is a designer and illustrator who spent her childhood drawing on any surface she could get her hands on: from papers to walls to all the white fences around her parents house. Since then her work has appeared in various media and publications across Canada and Asia. She lives in Toronto and spends most of her days designing and illustrating beautiful books. In her free time she enjoys travelling with her partner exploring the great outdoors and chasing after their wild and rambunctious puppy Spanky.