Gabriela Gamez

Profil

Portrait de Gabriela Gamez
Since 2006 I have been working as part of the Isuma collective with indigenous children, artists and media makers in the Canadian Arctic and Latin America, exploring new solutions using video, art and new media technologies as tools for social transformation. I am currently working with John and Ruben on a project called Time Machine, a project to Inuit make comic stories using iPods or mobiles. In 2011, with the help and guidance of a group of inspiring people, I designed ARTCO as a project to experiment ways in which we can explore and practice the power, the benefit, and the creative energy of collective action. The questions behind ARTCO were: How can children and youth use new media to share experience, resolve common problems and find new ways to communicate across old barriers? and What is the “tool-kit” they need to be active participants in the reality they live in? Under the direction of Norman Cohn, I was responsible of the design and concept creation of www.isuma.tv a collaborative multimedia platform for indigenous filmmakers and media organizations, where each user can design their own space, or channel, to reflect their own identity, mandate and audience. Within Isuma I was also project manager of the web platform of Digital Indigenous Democracy (DID); DIAMA, a project for digitizing the Inuit and Aboriginal media archive; and, the Indigenous Film Network project for community film distribution. I was born in Mexico City and have lived in Montreal, Canada since 2006. I studied Sociology and Political Science. In Mexico I worked as a consultant for UNESCO and the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Mexican Department for Education (SEP) and the Mexican Department for Social Development (SEDESOL). I love being with my friends and family, yoga, walking, running, listening to music and I'm getting back to playing piano. Oh! and I love coffee!See more

Activity

  • Learning Materials "The Journals of Knud Rasmussen"

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    chaîne: Inuit Culture Education

    After completing “Atanarjuat The Fast Runner,” set in the mythological past in a community whose balance of life had not changed for 4,000 years, Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn chose to depict a series of events that took place in 1922, when Shamanism was replaced by Christianity – and the balance of life was changed forev… En savoir plus

    uploaded date: 27-11-2009

  • Evaluarjuk character outline

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    chaîne: Inuit Culture Education

    When I met Captain George C. Comer, we were on his whaling schooner Era, a week's hard travel to the south of my home in Iglulik, where I lived with my brother Aua, a shaman like me, and our families. Comer showed me a chart of the new syllabic alphabet the missionaries invented to write our language, Inuktitut, for the first time.… En savoir plus

    uploaded date: 27-11-2009

  • Nuqallak character outline

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    chaîne: Inuit Culture Education

    My name is Nuqallak, and I am the son of Umik. When I was 20 years old, I worked on the whaling schooner of Captain George C. Comer, along with Apak, who was my first sweetheart. Apak and I almost married when she was a teenager, but Aua, her father, didn't approve and kicked me out of camp.… En savoir plus

    uploaded date: 27-11-2009

  • Umik character outline

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    chaîne: Inuit Culture Education

    My name is Umik and I am a Prophet and leader among the Iglulik people. My son Nuqallaq and I converted to Christianity and now my work is to bring others to Jesus. This is a difficult task at times as many elders, such as Aua, do not believe in the ways of Jesus. As they will learn, all Christians take care of each other.… En savoir plus

    uploaded date: 27-11-2009

  • Apak character outline

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    chaîne: Inuit Culture Education

    My father is Aua, a great and powerful shaman, and I too have the power to call spirits. My father and I argue and he thinks I waste this power, for I use it only to spend time with my dead husband. My first sweetheart, Nuqallaq, was kicked out of camp when I was a teenager, and I soon fell in love and married.… En savoir plus

    uploaded date: 27-11-2009

  • Aua character outline

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    chaîne: Inuit Culture Education

    Before I was born, my mother was cursed by an evil shaman who whispered in her ear, 'All your children will be born dead!' and it was so. But when my mother broke taboo, I began struggling and kicking to get out through her navel, a sensitiveness that was a sign I should live to become a great shaman.… En savoir plus

    uploaded date: 27-11-2009

  • Knud Rasmussen

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    chaîne: Inuit Culture Education

    My name is Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen, and I was born in Jakobshavn, Greenland on June 7, 1879. I am of both Inuit and Danish descent and speak fluent Inuktitut. I am an experienced arctic traveler whose life's work has been dedicated to the study of the Eskimos.… En savoir plus

    uploaded date: 27-11-2009

  • Introduction

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    chaîne: Inuit Culture Education

    After completing “Atanarjuat The Fast Runner,” set in the mythological past in a community whose balance of life had not changed for 4,000 years, Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn chose to depict a series of events that took place in 1922, when Shamanism was replaced by Christianity – and the balance of life was changed forever.  Kunuk was inspired to make the film for “a first audience that… En savoir plus

    uploaded date: 26-11-2009

  • About ARTCO

    uploaded by: David Ertel

    Brief

    Inuit and Cree children use new media tools through a multidisciplinary artistic process to explore their past and present realities, connect with others, practice collective action and create a better future.

    … En savoir plus

    uploaded date: 10-12-2012

  • Distribution

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    These urls are direct links to 1080p h264 files for Isuma Productions. They can be copied (right-click and select "Copy Link Location") and pasted and emailed directly to authorized clients. These urls are specially encoded and stop working after 24 hours from the time you loaded this page.… En savoir plus

    uploaded date: 27-01-2010

  • Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change

    uploaded by: Ian Mauro

    About the film

    Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change had its world premiere October 23, 2010, at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto. The complete film also streamed online simultaneously watched by more than 1500 viewers around the world. Following the film, a Q&A with filmmakers Zacharias Kunuk and Dr.… En savoir plus

    uploaded date: 29-04-2009

  • Old Massett Television

    uploaded by: Haida

    Local server Media Players broadcast films from IsumaTV’s website to home viewers 24/7 by local TV. Call or Facebook your Station Manager to comment or add any film or video you want to watch. Contact info@isuma.tv.

    … En savoir plus

    uploaded date: 24-04-2014

  • Our Baffinland Atlas

    uploaded by: Ian Mauro

    ABOUT OUR BAFFINLAND

    The Arctic is warming double the global average, decreasing sea ice, making it easier to access and extract mineral and oil resources from the region, and this cumulative climatic and economic change has significant human and environmental health implications for Inuit and their communities.… En savoir plus

    uploaded date: 12-09-2013

  • The Fast Runner Trilogy

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    Three unique Inuit films expressing the dramatic history of one of the world’s oldest oral cultures from it’s own point of view.
    “A masterpiece... The first national cinema of the 21st century.” – A.O. Scott, NY Times review of Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, 2002.

    … En savoir plus

    uploaded date: 23-10-2009

  • UNU

    uploaded by: UNUChannel

    Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change videobriefs series. A series of short UNU videobriefs exploring climate change and its impacts from the perspectives of Indigenous community members in Australia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

    Available for summit viewing:
    Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change videobriefs series
    … En savoir plus

    uploaded date: 21-04-2009