I am the Webmaster for IsumaTV!
For the last four years, I have helped finance, coordinate and distribute several projects for the Artcirq Inuit Performance Collective, Arnait Video Productions, Kingulliit Productions and Igloolik Isuma Productions. Through these projects, I have had the privilege of traveling to Igloolik on three occasions, and discovering Inuit culture and way of life first hand.
Since graduating from the University of Québec in Montréal (UQÀM) with a B.A. in Communications, I have also worked as Assistant Coordinator for the Montreal International Documentary Festival and the Producer's Network at the Cannes Film Festival.
Since I was a child, I have been a huge movie buff. I also envoy cooking, discovering new flavors and cuisines, reading, biking, hiking and rock climbing.See more
Qikiqtaniq Voices: Live Broadcast of QIA Community Engagement Hearings
Igloolik, November 9th, 2015 – IsumaTV and NITV are pleased to announce the live broadcast of the QIA Community Engagement Tour for Phase II of the Mary River Project.
I really love videos and here are some of MY favorite videos from IsumaTV. Hand picked!
IsumaTV hosts thousands of individual video, audio and text post uploaded by filmmakers and organizations from arround the world, as well as hosting unique multimedia projects.
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.… Read more
The IsumaTV First Online Film Festival brought international and remote viewers an exciting and engaging online program of indigenous feature films, documentaries and shorts.
This symposium was an opportunity to discuss the importance of free, prior and informed consent, its status in Canadian and international law and its relevance in crucial decisions facing Indigenous peoples today.
Watch all the archived discussions from May 20, 2015 here!
IsumaTV and NITV present an exclusive channel with select films available to view online on IsumaTV. We are collaborating with a wide range of artists and filmmakers and are proud to host these shared works.
An exciting selection presented in collaboration with the Government of Nunavut Department of Culture and Heritage, showcasing 40 Inuit films hosted on IsumaTV, including youth projects, short films and award winning documentaries.
(2009, 8:09min, UNU) Shepherd Dootkasy and his wife Anarkul share their family’s observations and traditional adaptation to the changing climate in highland pastures of Kyrgyzstan’s Tian Shan Mountains.
Zacharias Kunuk's first feature, "Atanarjuat The
Fast Runner", won the Camera d'or at Cannes 2001 and Best Picture at
Canada's 2002 Genie Awards. He is president and co-founder in 1990 of
Igloolik Isuma Productions, Canada's first Inuit-owned independent
production company.
Leah Angutimarik, who plays Apak, is a member of
Artcirq and the Aqsiit Project, which offered circus training to young
people. She has participated in youth training projects in art, dance
and video. “The Journals of Knud Rasmussen” is her first appearance on
screen. She is currently unemployed and lives with her family in
Igloolik.
The great shaman, Avva, and his family are living on the land some
distance from Iglulik, his home community that lately has taken up the
teachings of Christian missionaries.
Artcirq is an Inuit artistic collective based in Igloolik, Nunavut.
Founded in 1998 to combat youth suicide with artistic opportunity, Artcirq has evolved into a community-based circus and multimedia organization, allowing northern and southern artists to bridge and meet in a meaningful and creative way.
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STAY TUNED! SUNDAY, OCT 23 at 7PM: imagineNATIVE presents the World Premiere and Closing Night film, WAPOS BAY: LONG GOODBYES right here on ISUMA.TV simultaneously as it is screened at the Festival in Toronto!… Read more
Watch over 1,000 films by or about the Inuit. Collections include Igloolik Isuma Productions, Arnait Video Productions, Inuit Broadcast Corporation, among many others.
Norman Cohn's selected video work 1970-present, channel in progress, stay tuned. 1979-1986:Children in Hospital (3 parts), In my end is my beginning (5 parts); How We Lived (8 parts); Quartet for deafblind.… Read more
Vídeo nas Aldeias (Video in the Villages) is an organization that provides video workshops for indigenous communities all over Brazil so they may have a voice of their own. The videos create dialogue between communities and with the outside world.
wanorazi yumneze means “awakening spirit” in Lakota. Despite the challenges Indigenous people have endured and continue to face, the deep-rooted cultures, traditions, knowledge and communities are strengthening, awakening.