10 Facts About Nyla Innuksuk

Nyla Innuksuk is a Canadian film director, writer, and producer, and virtual reality content creator.

Nyla Innuksuk attended Ryerson University, where she received a degree in film production in 2009.

Nyla Innuksuk has mainly worked on short documentary and fiction films focusing on Inuit and Indigenous peoples' stories.

Nyla Innuksuk's films are portraits of communities and community members in the Arctic, with a strong commitment to including community members in production phases of a film.

Nyla Innuksuk has won Canada's Pitch This competition by Telefilm Canada for her project titled Qalupalik.

Nyla Innuksuk was director resident at the Canadian Film Centre.

Co-written and co-produced by Nyla Innuksuk, Kajutaijuq premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was selected as one of the Canada's Top Ten Short Films from 2014.

Nyla Innuksuk was the writer and director for Breaths, a short documentary made for the Governor General's Performing Arts Award recipient, Susan Aglukark.

Since April 2015, Nyla Innuksuk has been a co-owner at the non-for-profit startup, Pinnguaq.

Nyla Innuksuk has worked with a variety of musical artists such as Tanya Tagaq and A Tribe Called Red.