IsumaTV First Online Film Festival launches March 2nd

The Nunavut Impact Review Board broke new ground for regulators in Canada this month.… Uqalimakkanirit

Atanarjuat The Fast Runner by Inuit director Zacharias Kunuk has been named Canada's best film of all time by the Toronto International Film Festival.

Listen LIVE to Online Radio through IsumaTV's Digital Indigenous Democracy project:

ARVIAT (Canada)

CAMBRIDGE BAY (Canada)

IGLOOLIK (Canada)

UINR–Unama’ki Institute of Natural Resources– is releasing two new books on the importance of moose to the Mi’kmaq people at Membertou’s Heritage Park on Tuesday May 27 at 11:00 am.

Sheila Watt-Cloutier's lecture, "Not the Time to COP Out," from Mt. Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, presented LIVE ON ISUMATV www.isuma.tv starting 6 pm EST (7 pm Atlantic), November 29, 2011. SKYPE call-in Q&A following the talk is available for any viewer, Skype Username: isumatvwebcaster.

The following links on IsumaTV lead to archives of live webcasts since May 2009.

http://www.isuma.tv/international-sami-film-centre

http://www.isuma.tv/imaginenative

IsumaTV will provide a Live Webcast of the Indigenous Film Conference hosted by the International Sami Film Centre based in Kautokeino, Norway, October 27-29, 2011.

Canada Media Fund Experimental Stream approved a $1 million investment in IsumaTV's newest initiative, Digital Indigenous Democracy, for 2011-12. For more information, see attached files.

International Sami Film Center announces a brand new program for projects, Please spread this information, through your website and network. We hope that your collagues will apply.
For more info,
http://indigenousfilmcircle.com
http://indigenousfilmcircle.com/en-espanol/
 

contact: Åsa Simma simma@isf.as

In August, the Government of Nunavut Department of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth (CLEY) overruled its previous refusal and now approved the original funding proposal for NITV on IsumaTV 3.0, NITV's 2011-12 proposal to expand the network of IsumaTV High-speed MediaPlayers to a total of 8 Baffin Island communities: Igloolik, Pangnirtuq and Iqaluit, started in 2010-11, and add… Uqalimakkanirit

Before Tomorrow, co-directed by Marie-Helene Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu, won the Golden Drum award at the 2011 Nepal International Indigenous Film Festival in Kathmandu. Before Tomorrow is the third Inuit feature film in The Fast Runner Trilogy produced by Igloolik Isuma Productions.… Uqalimakkanirit

Digital Indigenous Democracy is a proposal to the Canada Media Fund Experimental Stream for $1 million funding in 2011-12. It is a partnership among IsumaTV, NITV (Nunavut Independent TV Network), the Hamlet Councils of seven Baffin Island communities led by Igloolik, and scholars from Carleton University and Mount Allison University.… Uqalimakkanirit

Interesting article in the Nunatsiaq News: