John Hodgins

Profile

John Hodgins's picture
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

Activity

  • 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.

    Read more

    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).

    Read more

    uploaded date: 08-09-2016

  • Kelly Fraser

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Originally from Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, Kelly performed countless concerts across Canada in English and Inuktitut, especially the Arctic (Nunavut and Nunavik), where she was extremely well-known. Seamlessly blending the two languages with her powerful, insightful, and politically-relevant lyrics, her goal was to make the music speak to both Inuit and Qallunaat (“southerners”).

    Read more

    uploaded date: 10-05-2020

  • Angela Amarualik

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Angela Amarualik was born and raised in Igloolik, Like many small communities in Canada’s Arctic, Igloolik had many social problems. Angela worked hard to retain good attitude, improve circumstances, and be a role model for the younger kids in her town.… Read more

    uploaded date: 10-05-2020

  • Beatrice Deer

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Beatrice Deer, singer-songwriter, winner of the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards and Canadian Folk Music Awards, is from Nunavik. Half Inuit and half Mohawk, Deer left the small Quebec town of Quaqtaq in 2007. She has five albums to her credit. It is a body of work in which she uniquely mixes traditional Inuit throat singing with contemporary indie rock.… Read more

    uploaded date: 10-05-2020

  • Zacharias Kunuk

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Born in 1957 in a sod house on Baffin Island, Zacharias Kunuk was a whalebone carver in 1981 when he sold three sculptures in Montreal to buy a home video camera and 27” TV to bring back to Igloolik, a settlement of 500 Inuit who twice had voted to refuse outside television.… Read more

    uploaded date: 10-05-2020

  • Aleksei Vakhrushev

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Upon graduating from the Director’s Department of the Russian State Film School (VGIK) in 1996, he launched his career with a documentary entitled The Time When Dreams Melt. He continued to film his best work in his native land, focusing on the lives of the local people.… Read more

    uploaded date: 10-05-2020

  • Pakak Innuksuk

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Pakak Innuksuk is a reknowned drum dancer from Igloolik, Nunavut, who performs and teaches all over the Arctic. He is also an actor and associate movie director, known for Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001), The Journey of Knud Rasmussen (2006) and Maïna (2013).

    Read more

    uploaded date: 10-05-2020

  • Nancy Saunders

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Niap (Nancy Saunders) is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist whose work has been collected by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Avataq Cultural Institute among others. Based in Montreal, QC, the artist divides her time between the city and her home community of Kuujjuaq, Nunavik—a place that continues to deeply influence her work.… Read more

    uploaded date: 15-04-2020

  • About

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Tunnganarniq is an Inuktitut word meaning welcoming and inclusive. Tunnganarniq Live is a welcoming, inclusive and collaborative live TV platform, to give people access and engagement with Inuit art by Inuit artists sharing live TV content.… Read more

    uploaded date: 15-04-2020

  • Inuit Artists

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    This map shows a sample of our many incredible Inuit artists, with ways to find out more about them online.

    You may search by an artist’s name, location or medium if you are familiar with them already, or zoom into a region and discover the artists listed in that area! 

    Read more

    uploaded date: 13-04-2020

  • 42m 42s

    Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Inuvik - Renie Arey

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut

    On this episode of Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Inuvik host Dodie Malegana visits with Akłarvik Elder Renie Arey, discussing her family genealogy, surviving residential school while keeping her language and her time working as a translator keeping the language alive. This episode is in the Uummarmiutun dialect.

     

    First Broadacst Wednesday April 9, 2025

    Read more

    uploaded date: 04-04-2025

  • 1m 57s

    2025 Goose Watch Launch Video

    uploaded by: SIKU

    channel: SIKU

    Goose Watch 2025 has begun!
    Indigenous communities across the North are working together to help track this year’s goose migration using SIKU - you could win a $1000 gift card, sponsored by Northern! Learn more at https://siku.org/goosewatch

    Stay safe and good hunting!

    Language
    English narration with English captions

    Read more

    uploaded date: 04-04-2025

  • 56m 27s

    Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Arviat - Billy Kuksuk

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut

    On this episode of Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Arviat A live performance from Billy Kuksuk, a guitarist and musician from Arviat who plays blues, ragtime, and gospel music in both Inuktitut and English. He has released an album and often performs with his wife, Sandra. Recently, he played at the Puvirnituq Snow Festival.

     

    First Broadcast Thursday April 4th, 2025

    Read more

    uploaded date: 03-04-2025

  • 1m 12s

    IW25 Weekly Winner 3

    uploaded by: SIKU

    channel: SIKU

    Congratulations to Elena Angnatuk from Quaqtaq - the Week #3 Ice Watch Winner for their SIKU Ice Post documenting how to use an unaaq (harpoon) near their community.

    Read more

    uploaded date: 03-04-2025

  • 46m 29s

    Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Inuvik- Judy Selamio

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut

    On this episode of Quyanaq Qaikaffi Pangma Nunaptingnun - Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Inuvik (Tea Time With Elders) Host Dodie Malegana and her guest Judy Selamio discuss her family genealogy and life growing up in Aklavik including her work as a radio host. This program is in the Uummarmiutun dialect.

    First Broadcast Wednesday April 2nd, 2025

    Read more

    uploaded date: 02-04-2025

  • 50m 51s

    Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Arviat - Billy Ukutak

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut

    On this episode of On this episode of Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Arviat Connie Uyaupiq Kalluak sits down for a talk with Arviat Elder Billy Ukutak, a dedicated school counselor at Qitiqliq Middle School. Billy will give words of comforting advice for the Arviat community.

    First Broadcast, Tuesday April 1, 2025

    Read more

    uploaded date: 01-04-2025

  • 50m 30s

    Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Arviat - Bernadette Illungiayok

    uploaded by: Anonymous

    channel: Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut

    On this episode of Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Arviat : Tea Time With Elders - Host Connie Uyaupiq Kalluak sits down with Bernadette Illungiayok who will speak about and show items that she sews, she is an Inuk seamstress with knowledge in the traditional Inuit way of sewing clothing.

    First Broadcast Thursday March 27, 2025

    Read more

    uploaded date: 27-03-2025

  • 1m 12s

    Ice Watch 2025 Weekly Winner 2

    uploaded by: SIKU

    channel: SIKU

     Congratulations to Willia Amaamatuak from Salluit - the Week #2 Ice Watch Winner for their SIKU Ice Post documenting sinaaq near their community.

    Read more

    uploaded date: 27-03-2025