Monday

Duration: 58m 23s

First Isuma recreated fiction. A late-winter Inuit camp in the 1930's. Four families build a qaggiq, a large communal igloo, to celebrate the coming of spring with games, singing and drum dancing. A young man seeks a wife. The girl's father says no, but her mother says yes...

Duration: 1h 30s

In 1991, Igloolik Isuma Productions gathered 13 Igloolik elders for a week of discussion, to choose and then record 24 traditional ajaja songs considered most important to preserve for the future: where did the songs come from, how where they made and how have they been passed down generation to generation?

Duration: 5m 55s

Channel 51 Igloolik (Trailer): Celebrating 30 Years of Inuit Video Art (6 mins), NITV, Isuma, Arnait Video, Artcirq 2016. Inuktut w/English s-t.

Trailer of 30 years of video productions from Igloolik filmmakers since 1980s, from NITV Igloolik Community TV Channel 51.

Duration: 22m 20s

ᑐᖖᒐᓱᒋᑦ ᐊᓈᓇᐅᑉ ᑐᐱᖕᒐᓄᑦ! ᐅᓪᓗᒥ, ᐅᖃᖅᑎ ᐃᑦᑐᐊᖕᒐ ᐃᓚᖕᒋᓪᓗ ᑎᑭᑦᑐᑦ ᑐᐱᖕᒐᓄᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᓂᐊᖅᑐᑦ ᐱᒻᒪᕆᐅᓂᖕᒐᓂ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐃᓕᖅᑯᓯᖕᒋᓐᓂᒃ, ᐃᖃᓗᒐᓱᐊᕐᓂᖅ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᕐᓂᐊᖅᑐᒍᑦ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᒐᕐᒥ ᐃᖃᓪᓕᐊᖃᑎᒋᓪᓗᒍ

Welcome to Anaana’s Tent! Today, host Rita Claire arrives at her family’s tent and learns how important fishing is in Inuit culture. Celina Kalluk stops by to sing a song, and we read the book Fishing with Grandma.
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Duration: 5m 29s

ᖃᓄᐃᒪᑦ ᐊᕿᒌᑦ ᐃᔨᖏᑦ ᐊᐅᐸᓗᒪᖓᑕ, ᐳᕕᐊᖃᒪᖓᑕᓗ ᓂᕿᖃᕕᖏᓂᒃ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓂᐅᖏᑦ ᓴᐅᓂᖃᒪᖔᑕ.

Why ptarmigan have red eyes, a little pouch to store their food, and legs like drumsticks.

Duration: 5m 30s

For thousands of years they guided us through this world, teaching us invaluable lessons about life and death. They strengthened our resolve and reinforced our connection to this land, to each other, and to the animals we share it with. They enriched our souls, empowered our imaginations, and defined who we are as a people. These are the stories of our elders.

Duration: 28m 54s

Ammiturmiut 4716, Working mothers, 1991, originally produced by Inuit Broadcasting Corporation's Igloolik Station, all rights to this series have been returned to Igloolik's Kingulliit Productions. Inuktut.

Duration: 31m 17s

A documentary exploring issues of family, community, self, environment and culture including perspectives of children, teens and elders from Igloolik.

Of Ravens and Children, Arnait Video Productions 2015, Director Marie-Helene Cousineau. Inuktut and English w/Eng s-t.

Duration: 37m 36s

Ataguttaluk - A Life to Live For (37 mins), NITV and Kingulliit Productions 2019, Director Carol Kunnuk. Inuktut w/English s-t.

Mixing historical photos, contemporary footage, and recreated scenes, this experimental documentary tells the story of a woman who survived a terrible starvation to become one of the most important residents of Igloolik.

Duration: 27m 10s

Piujuk and Angutautuq, Arnait Video Productions 1994, Producers Madeline Ivalu, Susan Avingaq, Mary Kunuk and Marie-helene Cousineau. Inuktut w/English s-t. 

Duration: 1h 2m 26s

ᓴᖃᓕᐊᓯ ᑯᓄᒃ ᑐᖓᓴᐃᔪᖅ ᑕᐅᑐᖁᔨᓪᓗᓂ ᓱᓴᓐ ᐊᕕᖓ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᑎᑦᑎᓪᓗᓂ ᐊᔭᕌᕐᓂᕐᒥᒃ. ᐱᖃᑖᓂ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᔪᓂ ᓴᕿᔮᕐᑎᑕᐅᓂᖓᓂᑦ, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐃᒡᓗᓕᒃ, ᒥᑦᑎᒪᑕᓕᒃ, ᐃᒃᐱᐊᕐᔪᒃ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᑲᖏᕐᑐᒑᐱᒃ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖃᕐᑐᑦ ᓄᓇᒥᒃ ᖃᓂᒋᔭᖓᓂ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᖃᓄᖅ ᓴᕕᒃᓴᖅ ᐅᓯᑲᕐᑕᕐᑕᐅᓂᐊᕐᓂᖓᓂᒃ ᐹᕕᓐᓛᓐᑦ ᓄᓘᔮᓂ ᐅᔭᕋᒃᑕᕐᑐ ᐃᒃᐱᖕᓇᐅᑎᖃᕐᓂᐊᕐᓂᖓᓂᒃ.

Duration: 36m 14s

On Baffin Island, two mountains of ore will be cut down at Mary River. Some residents of Igloolik react to this development : they worry that this industrial development will destroy their environment and the marine mammals as well as their culture and hunting life style.

Duration: 28m 52s

In Qimuksik (Dog Team) one family travels in the immense and beautiful arctic during spring. Inuaraq teaches his young son how to survive in the old way: driving the dogs, building the igloo, catching seals on the open water, running down caribou to feed the family.    

Duration: 28m 50s

Inuaraq's family finally arrives at Avaja to a warm welcome. Yet, many changes have taken place. On the hill above the tents, they now find a wooden church and a priest. Sharing the fresh caribou feast, telling stories, Inuit are interrupted by the bell ringing. Inside the church the sermon is clear: Paul 4:22, 'Turn away from your old way of life.'

Duration: 43m 11s

In 1963 families living on the land at Kivitoo were relocated by RCMP to Qikiqtarjuaq, a town 50 km to the south, with the promise they could return, only to return to find their homes bulldozed and belongings destroyed.

Duration: 22m 20s

Rita Claire explains the importance of dogs to Inuit culture. Celina Kalluk and Rita Claire demonstrate a throat song called “The River,” and Rita Claire reads the book Siku and Kamik Go to School.
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Duration: 1h 2m 36s

Nunatinni (At Our Place) Show #42a, Part 1, March 12, 2004, NITV 2004, Host Carol Kunnuk. Inuktut. Broadcast Live in Igloolik March 12, 2004 with local news and culture, interviews, children's artwork, Zacharias Kunuk.

Duration: 36m 32s

Northern Haze: Living the Dream, Artcirq Productions 2011, Director Derek Aqqiaruq. Inuktut w/English s-t.

Rocking the North hard and heavy since 1977, “Northern Haze: Living the Dream” tells the story of the first known Inuit Rock Band to sing in their native tongue.

Duration: 17m 41s

Arnait Video Presents: Charlie Pisuk, Arnait Video Productions. English.

Charlie Pisuk is your uncle, your cousin, your brother-in-law. What do you have to say about him? Someone is listening.

Duration: 1m 15s

IsumaTV Trailer 1. IsumaTV website hosts video, audio and text files as well as unique digital multimedia projects. info@isuma.tv. This Trailer's clips:

Duration: 2h 41m 51s

Inuit epic set in ancient Igloolik, Atanarjuat The Fast Runner is a life-threatening struggle of love, jealousy, murder and revenge between powerful natural and supernatural characters, Canada's first feature film written, produced, directed, and acted by Inuit. 2001 Camera d'or, Cannes Film Festival; Best Picture, 2002 Genie Awards; #1 Canadian Film of the Decade, Macleans, CTV.

Duration: 2m 28s

KITIKMEOT TV: Speaking Inuktitut (3 mins), Taloyoak Community TV 2014.

Netsilik School Students Project. Syllabics.

Duration: 8m 48s

407, Artcirq, Igloolik Isuma, NITV productions 2006, Producer Guillaume Saladin, Director Bruce Haulli. Inuktut w/English s-t.

Duration: 1m 22s

IsumaTV Trailer 3. IsumaTV website hosts video, audio and text files as well as unique digital multimedia projects. info@isuma.tv. This Trailer's clips:

Duration: 1h 32m 23s

Circa 1840. Two isolated families meet after many years. It is summer; a happy time to celebrate their reunion. Despite the joyful mood, Ningiuq, an old woman of strength and wisdom, cannot stop worrying. Is it the illness of her best friend, Kutuguk, who is preparing to die? Or is it the strange foreign object that Maniq, her favourite grandson, found on the beach?

Duration: 45m 11s

This second Isuma-Artcirq co-production by Igloolik youth is a story about a young Inuk who lost his love. Using alcohol to put reality and the past behind, the past keeps hunting him. When he loses control and beats up a man on the street he is sentenced to two months in an outpost camp, where a hunter is waiting for him. 

Duration: 2h 42m 14s

Mixing scenes from past and present, My Father's Land (Ataatama Nunanga) looks at the meanings between Inuit history and modern mining in North Baffin Island; how new media is used to inform and consult Inuit leading up to July 2012 Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) Final Public Hearings on Baffinland's $6 billion Mary River proposal to build the world's largest iron mine on Inuit land between

Duration: 37m 36s

Ataguttaluk - A Life to Live For (37 mins), NITV and Kingulliit Productions 2019, Director Carol Kunnuk. Inuktut w/English s-t.

Mixing historical photos, contemporary footage, and recreated scenes, this experimental documentary tells the story of a woman who survived a terrible starvation to become one of the most important residents of Igloolik.

Duration: 22m 6s

ARNAIT: Show Me on the Map Episode 2, People Can Stand Up (22 mins) Discussions on Aboriginal Lands, Arnait Video Productions 2010, Carol Kunnuk, Marie-Hélène Cousineau. Inuktut w/English s-t.

Duration: 3m 49s

Arsene Ivalu: "I completely disagree because it will affect me, my culture and everything else around, ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ " 3:49 Inuktitut by Arnait Video Productions, Show Me on the Map, 2009. 

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Duration: 2m 37s

ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Atuat Akkirtiq shares her views on mining in this interview recorded for the program Show Me on the Map.   

"If the people consult us, they should be true to their word."