John Hodgins

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I have been the Technical Director for IsumaTV since our launch in 2008. I've managed the growth of the site from a simple video blog to an interactive social networking and OTT VOD platform, as well as acting as lead developer for a variety of Isuma's digital projects. I've travelled extensively in the Canadian Arctic managing installation of IsumaTV MediaPlayers in Igloolik, Pangnirtuq and Iqaluit. More recently, I developed the technology and helped launch Uvagut TV, Canada's first national Inuktut television channel.See more

Activity

  • Gjoa Haven | Uqsuqtuuq | ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᖅ

    uploaded by: GjoaHaven

    Gjoa Haven is a Low Bandwidth High Cost internet community. Internet service is 150 times behind southern Canada in cost-per-MB. To overcome this handicap NITV installs local server Mediaplayers to deliver high speed media to slow speed users, and broadcasts our internet films and videos to home TV.

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 07-03-2016

  • Old Massett

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    The Haida community page is dedicated to telling stories from the Haida perspective. Working in the communities of Skidegate and Old Massett, this page was possible through the Haida Script Development Project, a collaboration between the Council of the Haida Nation, the UBC School of Regional and Community Planning, and NITV (Nunavut Independent Television Network).

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 08-09-2016

  • ᑐᑦᑐᔭᖅ

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Kingulliit

     ᑐᕌᕐᓂᕆᒐᓱᐊᕐᑕᕋ ᑖᑦᓱᒧᖓ ᑕᕐᕋᓕᔮᓕᐊᕋᓄᑦ ᑕᑯᑎᑦᓯᓯᐊᕈᒪᒐᒪ ᖃᓄᖅ ᑐᑦᑐᐃᑦ ᐱᒻᒪᕆᑦᔪᐊᕌᓗᒻᒥᒃ ᓄᓇᖃᓲᒍᓐᓂᒪᖔᑕ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᓄᓇᕕᐅᑉ ᑕᕐᕋᖓᓂᒥᐅᑦ ᐃᓅᒡᒍᓯᑐᖃᕆᓚᐅᔪᔭᖓᓂ ᓄᓇᕕᓕᒫᑦᓯᐊᒥᒐᓚᒃ ᑐᑦᑐᐃᑦ ᐊᓯᐅᓚᐅᕐᑎᓇᒋᑦ ᑐᖓᓕᐊᓂᒃ ᓯᓚᕐᔪᐊᒥ ᐅᓇᑕᕐᓂᔪᐊᖃᕐᑎᓗᒍ, ᐃᒻᒪᖄᓪᓘᓃᑦ ᐊᖃᒍᐊᓂ. ᑐᑦᑐᐃᑦ ᐊᓯᐅᓪᓚᕆᐊᓗᑦᓴᒪᑕ ᐃᓄᓐᓄᑦ ᐱᔭᐅᑦᓴᕌᕐᐸᓕᕐᑐᕕᓃᑦ ᐅᖓᓯᑦᑐᐊᓗᒻᒧᑦ ᒪᙯᒋᐊᕐᑎᓗᒋᑦ ᓇᐹᕐᑐᐃᑦ ᒥᑦᓵᓄᑦ ᑖᕙᓃᓐᓂᒥᒪᑕ ᐊᖏᓂᕐᓭᑦ ᓇᐹᕐᑐᓕᒻᒥᐅᓴᔭᐅᑦᓱᑎᒃ ᑐᑦᑐᐃᑦ ᑖᕙᒃᑯᐊᓗ ᑐᑦᑐᐃᑦ ᓅᑦᑐᕕᓂᐅᑦᓱᑎᒃ ᓄᓇᕕᒻᒧᑦ ᓇᐹᕐᑐᐃᑦ ᒥᑦᓵᖓᓄᑦ.

    ᑐᑦᑐᔭᖅ (1971)

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 22-02-2015

  • Tuttujaq

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Kingulliit

     «TUTTUJAQ»(1971)
    Film 16 mm couleur (muet)
    Réalisé et tourné par
    Bernard Saladin d’Anglure,
    chargé de recherche au CNRS (Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale)
    et professeur invité au département d’anthropologie
    Université Laval

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 20-01-2015

  • Video on Demand

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Home

    IsumaTV automatically re-compresses every uploaded video to five different versions for Streaming (i.e. view-only) depending on the different internet capacities of viewers:

    1. High HD (1080) and Low HD (720) deliver highest quality Streaming to viewers with fast internet bandwidth;

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 09-01-2015

  • Projects and Consulting Work

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Home

    At IsumaTV we have put together a group of experts in media, law and other areas part of indigenous people’s lives. Over the years we have developed projects like DID, ARTCO, DIAMA, gathering knowledge and experience we can share with other people and interested media organizations.

    About these projects and consulting services:

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 09-01-2015

  • Multimedia Sharing and Custom Designed Channels

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Home

    IsumaTV carries over 5000 videos, and thousands of other images and audio files, in more than 70 different languages, on 800+ user-controlled channels, representing indigenous cultures and media organizations from Canada, U.S.A., Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Australia, New Zealand and all over Latin America.

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 09-01-2015

  • IsumaTV Mediaplayer Distribution Network

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Home

    By installing IsumaTV Mediaplayers in remote communities, IsumaTV has created an independent distribution network, allowing isolated communities in the world to interact at high-speed with other people worldwide, by contributing their own media content, and having access to the existing media on IsumaTV.

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 09-01-2015

  • Test text post

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Kingulliit

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut commodo augue ligula, quis mollis dui mollis vitae. Nam ac velit nec orci pulvinar lobortis. Phasellus nulla neque, aliquet vitae sagittis eget, auctor eu eros.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 12-02-2014

  • Cast and Characters

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)

    Atanarjuat was cast entirely with Inuit actors from Igloolik.

    The cast were a mix of experienced and newly-initiated actors. Natar Ungalaaq as Atanarjuat, and Paul and Mary Qulitalik as Qulitaliq and Nuriuniq, for example, have previous credits in Claude Masson's Kabloonak, CBC's Trial at Fortitude Bay and Turner Broadcasting's Glory and Honor.

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 15-10-2009

  • Sets

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)

    The sets for Atanarjuat were all authentic Inuit dwellings, made from traditional natural materials such as ice blocks, animal skins, rocks, sod, and snow. Igloos, for instance, were crafted from real snow blocks - not styrofoam as in some Southern productions about life in the Arctic!

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 15-10-2009

  • Qamutik

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)

    In the film, this qamutik (sled) belongs to Atanarjuat. It is made of caribou antlers and bone carefully laced together with sinew cord. Water is drizzled on the runners until it freezes, then made slick with a scrap of fur so that travel over the ice and tundra is swift and smooth.

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 15-10-2009

  • Hunting Tools

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)

    In the film, this set of hunting tools is made of intricately laced bone and sinew.

    The forked kakivak (fish spear) requires impeccable hand-eye coordination and timing.

    The unaaq (spear) can be used hunt a variety of animals, such as polar bear, seal, walrus, beluga, and narwhal.

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 15-10-2009

  • Props

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)

    The filmmakers assembled a group of talented local artisans to re-create the props used in Atanarjuat.

    They were led by head prop-maker and artistic director James Ungalaaq, an internationally renowned Inuit sculptor from Igloolik whose work is in numerous museum collections of Inuit art worldwide

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 15-10-2009

  • Raven Parka

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)

    This parka is worn by the original camp leader and shaman Kumaglak. His murder in the presence of the Evil Shaman, Tungajuaq, sparks the bloody feud between Atanarjuat and Oki's families. The raven feathers sewn on the skin of the parka indicate that the man wearing it is a shaman.

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 15-10-2009

  • Oki's Hood

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)

    This winter nasaq (hood) was worn by Oki in the film. Made of wolf fur, the hood has long tentacle-like strips encircling the neck, the effect of which is to make Oki look fiercer and meaner.

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 15-10-2009