Andrew Okpeaha
MacLean

Andrew Okpeaha MacLean is a filmmaker and playwright from Barrow, Alaska. His Sikumi (On the Ice) is the first film to be written entirely in the Inupiaq language. It premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, where it won a special jury prize in short filmmaking. Other short films include Natchiliagniaqtuguk Aapagalu (Seal Hunting with Dad), which premiered at Sundance in 2005 and was named one of the 10 best short films at the festival by IndieWire. MacLean was recently featured in Filmmaker Magazine as one of 2008’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.”