Puhitaq is an emerging video & cultural arts company owned and operated by Stacey Aglok MacDonald of Kugluktuk.
Puhitaq is dedicated to producing inspiring film and arts projects that are engaging and culturally relevant to Inuit across Canada and to develop and produce creative projects that promote education, wellness, social reflection and cultural knowledge.
Synopsis: Building a canoe solely from the materials that the forest provides may become a lost art, even among the Indians whose traditional craft it is. In this film, César Newashish, a sixty-seven-year-old Attikamek Indian of the Manowan Reserve north of Montreal, builds a canoe in the old way, using only birch bark, cedar splints, spruce roots and gum.
Synopsis: Sur la terre de Baffin, pendant le court été arctique, les Inuit profitent des quatre mois d'ensoleillement continuel pour faire leurs provisions en vue du long hiver à venir. Dans la région de Pont Inlet dans l'île d'Alukseevee, les Inuit Tununermiut chassent le phoque ainsi que le narval et le béluga. Nous rencontrons la famille d'un chasseur nommé Idlouk au camp.… Read more
Synopsis: Alanis Obomsawin was born during a solar eclipse: an event that foreshadowed her destiny as a storyteller. Katerina Cizek's portrait of this extraordinary artist, layered with animation, music and image, beautifully recalls Alanis Obomsawin's work.
Only available in English/Version anglaise seulement.
Synopsis: The Hudson's Bay Company's 300th anniversary celebration was no occasion for joy among the people whose lives were tied to the trading stores.
This film, narrated by George Manuel, president of the National Indian brotherhood, presents the view of spokesmen for Canadian Indian and
Métis groups.… Read more
Synopsis: Steve Anavilok talks about the fishing weir that used to be in the river at Harvaqtuuq in Ilu Inlet (Tariunnuaq) during the Cambridge Bay Fish Spear Workshop, April 2009. Steve was interviewed by Martha Angulalik.
Filmmaker: Darren Keith, Senior Researcher, Kitikmeot Heritage Society
Synopsis: Moses Koihok talks about the parts and the uses of the nauligaut - one of five different fish spears made during the Cambridge Bay Fish Spear Workshop held in April 2009 at the shop in Killinik High School.
Filmmaker: Darren Keith, Senior Researcher, Kitikmeot Heritage Society
Health Canada's First Nations and Inuit Health Branch has renewed funding for the National Aboriginal Youth Suicide Prevention Stratey. The Inuusivut project started in January, 2008 and was funded nationally through The Mental Health Promotion Program of NAYSPS. With the renewal of NAYSPS, our project team will work with Health Canada to ensure the continuation of the Inuusivut project.
Synopsis: Inuit in Nain learn about using health statistics and receive encouragement from their leaders, President Jim Lyall and First Minister Tony Anderson. This ground-breaking project in knowledge translation will lprovide the evidence for decision making. Visit www.naasautit.ca for more details.
3900 Picures has produced the first international feature film from Greenland. The film is titled "Nuummioq" and was shot during the summer of 2008 in Nuuk and surrounding fjords. The film premiered in Katuaq Culture Center in Nuuk the 1st of november 2009 and is selected in World competition catagory at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
Check out this amazing silent film called "Speaking out on climate change". In the tradition of Buster Keaton-style black and white slapstick comedy, this piece by Pangnirtung's Julie Alivaktuk brilliantly pokes fun at the very serious issue of climate change and how it affects Arctic ecosystems and Inuit people.
Ian Mauro is a forthcoming Canada Research Chair in "human dimensions of environmental change" at Mount Allison University, in New Brunswick. He is both a researcher and filmmaker, with a PhD in environmental science, and his work focuses on hunter, farmer and fisher knowledge regarding environmental change, specifically issues related to food security and global warming.… Read more
International Sami Film Centre is a centre for Sami film productions located in Kautokeino, Norway. We support sami filmmakers and co-produce sami films for education and training and we also collect traditional sami knowledge through the film medium.… Read more
The Inuusivut Project is a national initiative of the Embrace Life Council and the National Inuit Youth Council. The primary objective of the project is to learn, document and share - through a variety of multi-media techniques - how Inuit perceive, express, develop, foster and promote mental health.… Read more
Ullumi is designed to be meaningful to both northern and southern
audiences. The film's stories are told from the points of view of four
young people from Nunavik and Nunavut who affirm their Inuit identity
in an age of information, technology and self-determination. For more information go to:
www.ullumi.tv
