Films Using Actors

Dreamspeakers

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: Get Involved

When the first Dene filmmaker returned home to Canada’s Northwest Territories, his people had no words for his new art. They called it "Dreamtalking". When you make films a Dene elder said, you are speaking your dreams.
… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 14-01-2009
9m 46s

Canción de nuestra tierra

uploaded by: Hector Garcia

channel: VIII Festival Internacional de Cine y Video de los Pueblos Indígenas - México 2006

Year of Production: 2005

Country: Mexico

Filmmaker: Pedro Daniel Lopez
… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 12-01-2009
4m 56s

(dis)Place

uploaded by: Bracken Hanuse Corlett

channel: Bracken

This film was comissioned by the Alternator Gallery in Kelowna, under the theme, "Community Complicity." This piece speaks about disconnection from the land, colonial erasure, and the search for something true in the concrete jungle....warning there is brief side and bum nudity ;)

Filmmaker: Bracken H'anuse Corlett

Filmmaker Contact:
… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 12-01-2009
10m 21s

Shane Belcourt, Métis filmmaker

uploaded by: Sarita Ahooja

channel: IsumaTV Interviews

Shane Belcourt is a writer-director from Toronto. Shane's debut feature film, 'Tkaronto', was the closing night screening at the 2007 ImagineNATIVE film festival. He was a 2007 Toronto International Film Festival Talent Lab Participant, and is the 2007 IFC Mentorship Award winner with Rachel Fulford.… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 07-01-2009
23m 10s

Kevin Burton, Cree filmmaker

uploaded by: Sarita Ahooja

channel: IsumaTV Interviews

KEVIN LEE BURTON is Swampy Cree and originates from God's Lake Narrows, Manitoba. Kevin is a freelance editor, camera operator and short film director residing in Winnipeg. Kevin was awarded The Cynthia Lickers Sage Award for Emerging Talent at the ImagineNATIVE Film Festival for his short film 'Meskanahk' (My Path) in 2005.

Other films by Kevin include:
… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 07-01-2009
5m 27s

Marnie Parrell, Métis filmmaker

uploaded by: Sarita Ahooja

channel: IsumaTV Interviews

Listen to Métis artist, filmmaker and writer, Marnie Parrell, as she explains her work and the making of 'Women in Canada', and 'Ahoy! Métis!'
… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 07-01-2009
17m 36s

ULLUMI - Part 1

uploaded by: Qajaaq Ellsworth

channel: Ullumi

Year of Production: 2009

Country: Canada
… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 18-12-2008
17m 36s

ULLUMI - Part 2

uploaded by: Qajaaq Ellsworth

channel: Ullumi

Year of Production: 2009

Country: Canada
… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 18-12-2008
16m 38s

ULLUMI - Part 3

uploaded by: Qajaaq Ellsworth

channel: Ullumi

Year of Production: 2009

Country: Canada
… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 18-12-2008
13m 44s

Shaping Our Future (Inuktitut version)

uploaded by: IAF

channel: Inuit Art Foundation (IAF)

Narrated in Inuktitut, Shaping our Future provides a brief overview of the Inuit Art Foundation and its many activities. Combining footage from the Arctic with scenes filmed at the foundation’s headquarters in Ottawa, the 12-minute video follows IAF’s evolution from publisher of a modest newsletter into a model organization for indigenous groups worldwide.… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 15-12-2008
12m 30s

Shaping Our Future

uploaded by: IAF

channel: Inuit Art Foundation (IAF)

A brief overview of the activities of the non-profit Inuit Art Foundation, which exists to facilitate the creative expressions of Inuit artists and to foster a broader understanding of these expressions worldwide.

Filmmaker Contact:

www.inuitart.org

Year of Production: 2004

Country: Canada
… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 11-12-2008
Mapping Our Way Through History: Reflections on Knud Rasmussen's Journals - by Lee Maracle

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: A Sense of Memory and High-definition Inuit Storytelling

Maps are orders marching men to old places already seen
Maps conjure memories of spoil, of plunder and innocence
Maps are journeys to illusions no one has learned from
Maps are critical revisits with visions, vistas and never before seen repeats … Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 05-12-2008
Without stories we are lost... - by Hugh Brody

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: A Sense of Memory and High-definition Inuit Storytelling

The strangers from Greenland sit in the snow house of Avva, a shaman. Avva introduces his family to the visitors. The scene is tense, with silences that are awkward or watchful. Avva puffs on his pipe.… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 04-12-2008
Spirit Being Dialogue - by Floyd Favel

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: A Sense of Memory and High-definition Inuit Storytelling

There are some films that stay with us forever, the characters alive within us, like spirit beings.… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 04-12-2008
Speaking from the Heart of Collective Memories - by Catherine Martin

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: A Sense of Memory and High-definition Inuit Storytelling

The filmmakers of The Journals of Knud Rasmussen write, 'This film asks questions among others, about vanished peoples, colonization, cultural amnesia, effaced memory, Christianization and the complete erasure of a religion - especially in the absence of a literary tradition in most Aboriginal oral cultures.'
… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 04-12-2008
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt - by Norman Cohn

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: A Sense of Memory and High-definition Inuit Storytelling

We have been asked: Who is the intended audience for The Journals of Knud Rasmussen?
… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 03-12-2008