Siku Allooloo (Inuk/Haitian/Taíno) is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist, writer, and filmmaker from Yellowknife, NT (by way of Mittimatalik, NU and Haiti). Her poetic, sensorial work weaves the intimate and intangible with archives and cultural materials to re-presence ancestral trajectories. Siku’s film and artwork have been featured at the Whitney Museum of American Art, BlackStar Film Festival, DOXA, The National Arts Centre, The Flaherty, Qaumajuq-Winnipeg Art Gallery, imagineNATIVE, and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal. Siku’s debut short film, SPIRIT EMULSION (2022), won Best Canadian Short at Gimli International Film Festival, Prix de la Relève at Festival International Présence Autochtone, two Filmmaker Awards at YKIFF 2022, and Honourable Mention, DOXA Documentary Short Award. Her independent journalism, poetry, and creative writing have also been widely published (in The Guardian, Canadian Art Magazine, Truthout, Chatelaine, and The Capilano Review). 

In 2022-2023, she co-curated the Woven In: Indigenous Women’s Activism and Media exhibition at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (Victoria, BC). On occasion, Siku has served as a programmer for BlackStar Film Festival (2022), imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (2021) and Available Light Film Festival (2021, 2022). 

Through her company, Akia Films, Siku is currently leading the production of her first documentary feature, INDÍGENA, as the writer, director and co-producer.