{"id":3926,"date":"2025-04-22T18:25:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animationdirectory.ca\/listing\/taqqut-productions\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:41:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:41:32","slug":"taqqut-productions","status":"expired","type":"listing","link":"https:\/\/animationdirectory.ca\/fr\/listing\/taqqut-productions\/","title":{"rendered":"Taqqut Productions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taqqut Productions Inc. is an Inuit-owned film production company located in Iqaluit, Nunavut. Taqqut is committed to bringing the stories of the North to the world and aims to establish itself as an innovative leader of youth and children\u2019s programming. Taqqut has developed several film and television projects. Its production experience includes: live-action, stop motion animation, 2D animation, and puppets. It also provides other project production services, such as web design, marketing, and technical writing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In its first season, the company\u2019s television series <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anaana\u2019s Tent<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was nominated for the Award of Excellence for Best Program, Live Action Scripted (Preschool 3-5) at the Youth Media Alliance. Host Rita-Claire Mike Murphy was awarded the 2019 Emerging Talent Award at the Youth Media Alliance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taqqut has had great success with its short films, which have screened at festivals all over the world. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Giant Bear <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">was awarded Best Animated Short at the 2020 Canadian Screen Awards, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Shaman\u2019s Apprentice <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">received IMDb Short Cuts\u2019 Best Canadian Film Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, as well as the FIPRESCI Award at the 2021 Annecy International Animated Film Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taqqut&#8217;s most recent stop-motion animated film, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mangittatuarjuk (The Gnawer of Rocks) <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">has been selected for an incredible 18 awards (and counting), including Best Screenplay and Best Art Direction at the 2025 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Best Animated Short Film at the 2026 Dublin International Film Festival, and Best Canadian Short at the 2026 TAAFI &#8211; Toronto Animation Arts Festival International.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1098,"featured_media":5911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","listing-category":[178],"list-tags":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-3926","listing","type-listing","status-expired","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","listing-category-animation-companies","features-animation-services","features-feature-film-production","features-tv-series-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationdirectory.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing\/3926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationdirectory.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationdirectory.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationdirectory.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationdirectory.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/animationdirectory.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing\/3926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7235,"href":"https:\/\/animationdirectory.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing\/3926\/revisions\/7235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationdirectory.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationdirectory.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"listing-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationdirectory.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing-category?post=3926"},{"taxonomy":"list-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationdirectory.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/list-tags?post=3926"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationdirectory.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=3926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}