John Hodgins

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I have been the Technical Director for IsumaTV since our launch in 2008. I've managed the growth of the site from a simple video blog to an interactive social networking and OTT VOD platform, as well as acting as lead developer for a variety of Isuma's digital projects. I've travelled extensively in the Canadian Arctic managing installation of IsumaTV MediaPlayers in Igloolik, Pangnirtuq and Iqaluit. More recently, I developed the technology and helped launch Uvagut TV, Canada's first national Inuktut television channel.See more

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  • Gjoa Haven | Uqsuqtuuq | ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᖅ

    uploaded by: GjoaHaven

    Gjoa Haven is a Low Bandwidth High Cost internet community. Internet service is 150 times behind southern Canada in cost-per-MB. To overcome this handicap NITV installs local server Mediaplayers to deliver high speed media to slow speed users, and broadcasts our internet films and videos to home TV.

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    uploaded date: 07-03-2016

  • Old Massett

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    The Haida community page is dedicated to telling stories from the Haida perspective. Working in the communities of Skidegate and Old Massett, this page was possible through the Haida Script Development Project, a collaboration between the Council of the Haida Nation, the UBC School of Regional and Community Planning, and NITV (Nunavut Independent Television Network).

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    uploaded date: 08-09-2016

  • Welcome to IsumaTV!

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Home

    Welcome, you can now begin to upload to IsumaTV!

    Create as many channels as you like for your media, follow other people’s channels and join community hubs.

    Use your floating control panel on the right to upload, create new channels, and edit your profile or to logout.

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    uploaded date: 06-04-2015

  • Tuttujaq

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Kingulliit

     «TUTTUJAQ»(1971)
    Film 16 mm couleur (muet)
    Réalisé et tourné par
    Bernard Saladin d’Anglure,
    chargé de recherche au CNRS (Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale)
    et professeur invité au département d’anthropologie
    Université Laval

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    uploaded date: 20-01-2015

  • Video on Demand

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Home

    IsumaTV automatically re-compresses every uploaded video to five different versions for Streaming (i.e. view-only) depending on the different internet capacities of viewers:

    1. High HD (1080) and Low HD (720) deliver highest quality Streaming to viewers with fast internet bandwidth;

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    uploaded date: 09-01-2015

  • Projects and Consulting Work

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Home

    At IsumaTV we have put together a group of experts in media, law and other areas part of indigenous people’s lives. Over the years we have developed projects like DID, ARTCO, DIAMA, gathering knowledge and experience we can share with other people and interested media organizations.

    About these projects and consulting services:

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    uploaded date: 09-01-2015

  • Multimedia Sharing and Custom Designed Channels

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Home

    IsumaTV carries over 5000 videos, and thousands of other images and audio files, in more than 70 different languages, on 800+ user-controlled channels, representing indigenous cultures and media organizations from Canada, U.S.A., Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Australia, New Zealand and all over Latin America.

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    uploaded date: 09-01-2015

  • IsumaTV Mediaplayer Distribution Network

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Home

    By installing IsumaTV Mediaplayers in remote communities, IsumaTV has created an independent distribution network, allowing isolated communities in the world to interact at high-speed with other people worldwide, by contributing their own media content, and having access to the existing media on IsumaTV.

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    uploaded date: 09-01-2015

  • Test text post

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Kingulliit

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut commodo augue ligula, quis mollis dui mollis vitae. Nam ac velit nec orci pulvinar lobortis. Phasellus nulla neque, aliquet vitae sagittis eget, auctor eu eros.… Read more

    uploaded date: 12-02-2014

  • 6m 43s

    Tracking Polar Bears Outside Makkovik

    uploaded by: Nanuk Narratives

    channel: Nanuk Narratives

    Tracking Polar Bears Outside Makkovik


    Inuit receiving one of the two polar bear licenses in Makkovik, Nunatsiavut, have seven days to hunt a polar bear before the license is passed to another hunter. This video shares an experience of tracking polar bears outside of Makkovik.

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    uploaded date: 20-12-2024

  • 6m 14s

    How to Use Polar Bear Fur

    uploaded by: Nanuk Narratives

    channel: Nanuk Narratives

    How to Use Polar Bear Fur

    This video features the voices of women from Pangnirtung, Nunavut, as they share their experiences with preparing polar bear fur. They offer insights into the cultural significance and techniques involved in working with polar bear fur, an important material for clothing and other items in Arctic life.

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    uploaded date: 20-12-2024

  • 6m 45s

    Polar Bears: Voices from Pangnirtung

    uploaded by: Nanuk Narratives

    channel: Nanuk Narratives

    Polar Bears: Voices from Pangnirtung

    Knowledge holders from Pangnirtung, Nunavut, reflect on changes they are witnessing relating to polar bears outside of their community. They discuss the importance of Inuit stewardship, and the history of living alongside polar bears.

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    uploaded date: 20-12-2024

  • 4m 56s

    Living With Polar Bears in Pangnirtung

    uploaded by: Nanuk Narratives

    channel: Nanuk Narratives

    Living With Polar Bears in Pangnirtung

    As people hunt, fish, and trap on the land, they no longer feel the same sense of safety they once did. Bears are breaking into cabins, making experiences on the land more uncertain. In this video we hear from knowledge holders from Pangnirtung as they share their experiences with bears.

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    uploaded date: 20-12-2024

  • 6m 50s

    Nippaq - The Seal Hole

    uploaded by: Nanuk Narratives

    channel: Nanuk Narratives

    Nippaq - The Seal Hole

    The millennia-old relationship between Inuit and polar bears is cinematically explored through a shared source of food: seals. Bear and human hunters both wait patiently by the tiny breathing holes seals have carved into the frozen icescape. Through bears, Inuit have learned to be still, waiting for the rare moment to strike to eat and survive.

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    uploaded date: 20-12-2024

  • 5m 1s

    What Hunting Polar Bears Means for This Woman

    uploaded by: Nanuk Narratives

    channel: Nanuk Narratives

    What Hunting Polar Bears Mean For This Woman

    This narrative shares the experience of Melva and her family's experience trying to hunt a polar bear outside of Rigolet, Nunatsiavut. As a female hunter, Melva shares the cultural value of the hunt, and how the fur is now used as an educational resource for youth so that their connection to polar bears can be sustained.

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    uploaded date: 19-12-2024

  • 5m 43s

    Observations of Polar Bears Around Makkovik

    uploaded by: Nanuk Narratives

    channel: Nanuk Narratives

    Observations of Polar Bears Around Makkovik

    What do the changing ice conditions mean for polar bears? Knowledge holders in Makkovik share their views, and their experiences with changing bear behaviour. They also reflect on the importance of hunter education and connection to culture for sustained relationships with bears.

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    uploaded date: 19-12-2024

  • 3m 35s

    The Making of Nanuk Narratives

    uploaded by: Nanuk Narratives

    channel: Nanuk Narratives

    The Making of Nanuk Narratives

    The co-creation process of Nanuk Narratives involved a collaborative effort between Inuit communities, wildlife co-management boards, local filmmakers, and interdisciplinary experts. This video celebrates some of the many people who were behind this work.

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    uploaded date: 19-12-2024

  • 6m 29s

    What Polar Bears Mean For Inuit

    uploaded by: Nanuk Narratives

    channel: Nanuk Narratives

    What do polar bears mean for Inuit?

    Ikimaliq Pikilak, an artist, filmmaker, and cultural knowledge holder based in Nuuk, Greenland, shares a unique perspective on the deep emotional connections between Inuit and polar bears. She describes a reciprocal connection, and how hunters have learnt much from bears over many generations.

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    uploaded date: 19-12-2024