Awarding Indigenous Cinema

IKCC will be screening in Montreal at the Human Rights Media Documentary Film Festival on October 1st at 4:15 in Concordia University's BMO Amphitheatre:

docfest2011.wordpress.com/what-is-jhr/

The festival is co-presented by the Journalists for Human Rights and the Canadian Museum of Human Rights.

We are humbled to have won the "communities" award at the 21st annual Montreal First People's Film Festival:

www.nativelynx.qc.ca/festival/en

This award speaks to the value of community knowledge and it's really a prize for the participants in the documentary. We thank them for their generosity and insights.

Tonight IKCC was screened in an Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit Film Festival that was held simultaneously in Arviat, Nunavut, and in Toronto at York University.

The evening was presented by the Nanisiniq Arviat History Project:http://nanisiniq.tumblr.com/

Greetings from the US!

Tonight, Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change will have its New York Premiere, opening the Smithsonian Institution's Native American Film and Video Festival.

If you've seen Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change, you'll know that Elders in Nunavut believe that the handling and tagging of animals, specifically polar bears and whales, causes adverse health and behaviour issues.

Last night, in Ottawa, Zacharias Kunuk and I presented Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change at ArcticNet, Canada's largest northern research meetings.

The screening was well attended, with some 400 people present, and we had a fantastic Q and A afterwards. We had questions from Inuit, scientists and students as well as a skype-in call from London, England.

Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change Video Invited to COP-15  in Copenhagen

Interact with filmmakers Zacharias Kunuk and Ian Mauro during live weekly webcasts from Igloolik every Thursday from 8-10 pm starting November 19.

Zach and I have been editing like madmen. It's quite a process: surfing the footage, finding the pithy quotes, and translating them from Inuktitut to Qallunaatitut. We often have to debate the specific nuances of what is being said to ensure that we communicate concepts properly in English. It's fascinating to work across cultural worlds in this way.

This past weekend, in the middle of a blizzard, Zacharias and I went to his cabin on one of the nearby bays on this island. We hung out and talked about the Inuit knowledge and climate change research film we are making. When we left, I walked outside ready to hop on the skidoo, and I was blown away by the night sky.