The Uluit is a team of women playing hockey in Inukjuak. They are women of all ages, mothers and grand-mothers, students and workers having fun on the ice. The series will consist of 5 episodes aired on APTN in 2011. Co-produced with Montreal based company, Rotating Planet.
Arnait Video Productions and Rotating Planet are co-producing a documentary series of 5 episodes about an amazing all women hockey team in Inukjuak, Nunavik, The Uluit. We will follow the lives of these remarkable women, athletes and mothers, grand-mothers, students and workers, who are role models in their community and in the North. The series will aired on APTN in 2011.
Women of the Arnait Video Collective reenact a traditional women's activity: the use of the qulliq. The qulliq is the seal oil lamp and stove of the old days, the only source of light and warmth. The women tell the story in words and songs as they install the qulliq in their igloo.
Synopsis: In 1840, two isolated Inuit families reunite in celebration after many years of separation. These tribes have never met any white people, although rumours circulate about them. When Ninioq, an old woman, her best friend, Kuutujuuk, and her grandson, Maniq leave camp to dry fish on a remote island a strange illness attacks the camp.… Read more
Collecting, Connecting and Creating Women’s Voices in Nunavut
September 13-17, 2010 Iqaluit, Nunavut
Welcome to the blog we created during the Symposium! We want to keep you updated on what happened in Iqaluit during this exciting meeting. You will find here photos, videos and texts, in Inuktitut and English from the Symposium participants.
This channel is dedicated to the wonderful work of Inuit midwives.
Interviews with traditionnal midwives from Igloolik done in 1991, rescued from 8mm video recording (so sorry for the technical quality) are here in their original Inuktitut version.
Seperarete English transcripts are also available on this channel for each of the interviews.
Bonjour, nous sommes des Inuit et on habite tous au Nunavik (nord du Québec). Nous sommes ici au Cégep Marie-Victorin et c'est notre 2e trimeste. On a tous des intérêts différents. Dans ce blog, vous allez trouver des photos, des vidéos et des textes à propos de notre vie à Montréal. Écrivez-nous des commentaires.
This site is part of an ongoing effort to create links between Inuit media artists in Nunavut and indigenous media groups in Mexico. It is also a reflection about cultural connections more generally. In what ways do cultural exchanges bring about new and innovative creative conversations? What do people learn from them?
This channel presents Paul Apak's two Expedition Films, Qidtlarssuaq by dogteam from Igloolik to Qanaaq, Greenland; and Umiaq by walrus skin boat from Siberia to Alaska across the Bering Strait. Paul Apak Angilirq (1954-1998) was vice-president and co-founder of Igloolik Isuma Productions in 1990.… Read more
What you will find here are excerpts of the travels of Arnait Media Productions to Nuuk: meetings, encounters. discoveries.
This exchange with media producers , filmakers and artists of Greenland was possible with a grant from Canada Council for the Arts through the Aboriginal Peoples Collaborative Exchange.
Program name: Nunavut Annirijavut Producer: Igloolik - Inuit Broadcasting Corporation
Segment 1: Igoolik elder, Nathan Qamaniq, talks about how igloo (igluvigaq) building is best done. Epkanak and Alagalak also talk about different types of snow and their individual ways to build an igloo when snow conditions are challenging.
Takuginai (Look Here): This is the premiere Aboriginal language program in North America directed at children. Takuginai is one of IBC's longest running, best known and most loved programs. The series features the likes of "Johnny" the lemming and other locally made puppets and young hosts.… Read more
Program name: Inukshuk Producer: Iqaluit – Inuit Broadcasting Corporation
Segment 1: William Tagoona performs his songs. Other artists from different northern Quebec communities also perform on stage in Kuujjuaq, (northern) Quebec.
Program name: Inukshuk Producer: Iqaluit - Inuit Broadcasting Corporation
Segment 1: Joanasie Salomonie interviews John Amaroalik, President of Inuit Tapirisat Kanatami, Thomas Suluk and MP Peter Ittinuar. They each talk about what issues they are working on in their positions as leaders.
The Inuit Broadcasting Corporation provides a window to the Arctic by producing award-winning television programming by Inuit, for Inuit. Created in the late 1970's, IBC is, indeed, Nunavut’s public producer. IBC does not produce the regular fare of TV sitcoms and talk shows.… Read more
