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Trailer: One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk

uploaded by: David Ertel

channel: Venice 2019

In today’s contentious global media environment, when millions of people have been driven from their homes worldwide, Isuma media art in the UN Year of Indigenous Languages sees the forced relocation of families from an Inuit point of view.… Read more

uploaded date: 27-02-2019
Screenings and Reviews

uploaded by: David Ertel

channel: One day in the life of Noah Piugattuk

uploaded date: 30-03-2019
IsumaTV Live!

uploaded by: David Ertel

channel: Venice 2019

uploaded date: 08-03-2019
Isuma on Itunes

uploaded by: David Ertel

channel: Venice 2019

Isuma’s exhibition in cyberspace presents a collection of Isuma and other indigenous-language films on iTunes in 30 countries with subtitles in English, Italian, French, Spanish and German, including Atanarjuat The Fast Runner (Cannes Camera d’or 2001); The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (opening film at 2006 Toronto International Film Festival); Before To… Read more

uploaded date: 08-03-2019
Isuma's Online Exhibition

uploaded by: David Ertel

channel: Venice 2019

In the spirit of media democracy, Isuma's exhibition at the 58th Biennale di Venezia has a parallel exhibition accessible to anyone with an Internet connection through www.isuma.tv and The Isuma Book.… Read more

uploaded date: 08-03-2019
Isuma Collection

uploaded by: David Ertel

channel: Venice 2019

In 1985 Zacharias Kunuk, Norman Cohn, Paul Apak and elder Pauloosie Qulitalik formed Igloolik Isuma Productions, incorporated in 1990 to produce independent media art from an Inuit point of view. In 2001 Isuma’s first feature, Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, won the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.… Read more

uploaded date: 27-02-2019
Digital Indigenous Democracy (DID)

uploaded by: David Ertel

channel: Venice 2019

An experimental internet network created in 2012 to inform and consult Inuit in low-bandwidth communities facing development from the Baffinland Iron Mine and other resource projects, to help define standards of ‘inform and consult’ now required by Canadian and international law.… Read more

uploaded date: 27-02-2019
IsumaTV: 7,850 videos in 71 languages

uploaded by: David Ertel

channel: Venice 2019

Isuma Online features the complete archive of Igloolik’s Inuktitut video production since 1985 with more than 7000 international Indigenous films and videos in over 70 languages. IsumaTV’s network of local servers in remote Inuit communities makes IsumaTV available in regions where high-cost and low-bandwidth prevent fair access to internet media.… Read more

uploaded date: 27-02-2019
Baffinland Mine early development

uploaded by: David Ertel

channel: Baffinland Mine early development

The Mary River Mine developed by Baffinland Iron Mine Corporation is a massive and unprecedented mining development for Nunavut (and the Arctic region in general). On the one hand, it represents a major opportunity for potential benefits to workers and their families, to Inuit communities and designated Inuit organizations, as well as to the territorial and federal governments.… Read more

uploaded date: 08-01-2019
Baffinland Mine early development

uploaded by: David Ertel

channel: Baffinland Mine early development

The Mary River Mine developed by Baffinland Iron Mine Corporation is a massive and unprecedented mining development for Nunavut (and the Arctic region in general). On the one hand, it represents a major opportunity for potential benefits to workers and their families, to Inuit communities and designated Inuit organizations, as well as to the territorial and federal governments.… Read more

uploaded date: 08-01-2019
Visual Maps

uploaded by: David Ertel

channel: Digital Indigenous Democracy

uploaded date: 24-12-2018
Full Timeline

uploaded by: David Ertel

channel: Digital Indigenous Democracy

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uploaded date: 21-12-2018

Aboriginal Perspectives Lesson Plans

uploaded by: David Ertel

uploaded date: 07-02-2011
About ARTCO

uploaded by: David Ertel

Brief

Inuit and Cree children use new media tools through a multidisciplinary artistic process to explore their past and present realities, connect with others, practice collective action and create a better future.
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uploaded date: 10-12-2012
Angel Street

uploaded by: David Ertel

uploaded date: 28-03-2011
ARTCO

uploaded by: David Ertel

<?php echo t('ARTCO "Artisans of Today\'s Communities" is a project led by Kingulliit Productions and IsumaTV where Inuit and Cree children use new media tools to explore their past and present realities, practice collective action and create a better future.') ?>
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uploaded date: 22-08-2011
ARTCO Full Site

uploaded by: David Ertel

Testing one two three. Testing one two three. Testing one two three. Testing one two three. Testing one two three. Testing one two three. Testing one two three. Testing one two three. Testing one two three.
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uploaded date: 23-08-2011
ARTCO New Media Workshop

uploaded by: David Ertel

NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES – Workshop by Gabriela Gámez

Introduction to the ARTCO project and to the new media technologies the participants will be using throughout the process.
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uploaded date: 20-09-2011
ARTCO Video Workshop

uploaded by: David Ertel

VIDEO – Workshop by Diego Rivera
Children, teachers and community organizers learn how to use video as a tool to expand attention and for storytelling. Using this video technique, Cree and Inuit children explore their daily practices.
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uploaded date: 22-08-2011
Baffinland Mine early development

uploaded by: David Ertel

2006
The Mary River Mine developed by Baffinland Iron Mine Corporation is a massive and unprecedented mining development for Nunavut (and the Arctic region in general). On the one hand, it represents a major opportunity for potential benefits to workers and their families, to Inuit communities and designated Inuit organizations, as well as to the territorial and federal governments.… Read more

uploaded date: 08-01-2019
Digital Indigenous Democracy

uploaded by: David Ertel

Today's legal obligation to 'Inform and Consult' must be conducted with the best available technology in a language people understand.
Audio and video interactive new media allows oral spoken Inuktitut to be the main language used to 'inform and consult' Inuit by internet.
… Read more

uploaded date: 11-12-2018
El Grito de la Selva

uploaded by: David Ertel

The regional indigenous movement of the 1990s in Bolivia sets the stage for the country’s first indigenous feature film. Communities in lowland Beni are shattered by violence meted out by illegal loggers. Their defense of their lives and lands culminates in protests that change the political landscape of Bolivia forever.
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uploaded date: 25-01-2011
First Online Film Festival 2015

uploaded by: Cara Di Staulo

IsumaTV First Online Film Festival
MARCH 2ND - APRIL 1ST 2015
The IsumaTV First Online Film Festival brought international and remote viewers an exciting and engaging online program of indigenous feature films, documentaries and shorts.
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uploaded date: 04-12-2014
From Igloolik

uploaded by: David Ertel

To be broadcast on spring 2019.
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uploaded date: 25-03-2019
Healing Through Art

uploaded by: David Ertel

Organizer Patricia Falope

Workshop Artists: Andy Williams, Jennifer Casimir (aka B Girl Bounce) and Mennatalla Shawky.
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uploaded date: 04-12-2012
Human Rights Impact Assessment

uploaded by: Gabriela Gamez

September 2012 - June 2013

The assessment of the human rights situation for the Mary River mine begins with a review of how government protects human rights in Canada. According to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, governments must protect against human rights abuse within their territory, including by companies.… Read more

uploaded date: 18-12-2018
Ian Mauro's Blog on Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change

uploaded by: Ian Mauro

Learn about the experience of making Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change through the perspective of co-director Ian Mauro.
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uploaded date: 06-12-2010
Igloolik Radio Online

uploaded by: IgloolikRadio

Call in

Share your perspective live via phone or Facebook!

+1.867.934.8080
+1.867.934.8082
Comment on our page
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uploaded date: 03-04-2012
IKCC Commentaries

uploaded by: David Ertel

Listen to people's reactions and comments about Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change.
You can also follow co-director Dr Ian Mauro's blog here!
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uploaded date: 07-12-2010
IKCC Press

uploaded by: David Ertel

Click here to see all the reviews and press for Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change.
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uploaded date: 07-12-2010
IKCC Screenings

uploaded by: IsumaTV

Book Screenings
Book screenings, rent or buy copies of Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change from our distributor Vtape. Contact Wanda at +1.416.351.1317 or email wandav@vtape.org.
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uploaded date: 06-12-2010
Interviews with Noah Piugattuk

uploaded by: David Ertel

uploaded date: 30-03-2019
Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change Trailers

uploaded by: David Ertel

uploaded date: 07-12-2010
Isuma Movies

uploaded by: David Ertel

uploaded date: 13-09-2016
Kingulliit The Next Generation

uploaded by: David Ertel

Sivulliit
ᐃᓐᓇᐃᑦ

Those who came before.

The last generation.
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uploaded date: 04-06-2011
Landing Pages

uploaded by: David Ertel

<?php GLOBAL $user; if ((!in_array('webmaster', $user->roles)) AND ($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] == '/persistent/www/isumatv/index.php')) { drupal_goto(); } ?>… Read more

uploaded date: 16-06-2010
Live Broadcast

uploaded by: John Hodgins

uploaded date: 18-10-2010
Mary River Mine – Summary

uploaded by: David Ertel

The Mary River Mine is a massive and unprecedented mining development for Nunavut (and the Arctic region in general). On the one hand, it represents a major opportunity for potential benefits to workers and their families, to Inuit communities and designated Inuit organizations, as well as to the territorial and federal governments.… Read more

uploaded date: 18-12-2018
Mining in Nunavut – Summary

uploaded by: David Ertel

The Mary River mine is not the first mine to developed in Nunavut, nor will it be the last. Mining projects in Nunavut are becoming increasingly feasible from a technological and economic point of view. Climate change will make mining and resource development more attractive and accessible.… Read more

uploaded date: 19-12-2018
More Voices on Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change

uploaded by: IsumaTV

Additional Voices on Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change are being uploaded every day to the channel http://www.isuma.tv/ikcc/voices. Some in Inuktitut, others in English.
More discussion about Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change, other related human rights issues, see also IKCC at www.isuma.tv/ikcc
… Read more

uploaded date: 14-10-2010
NIRB makes recommendations

uploaded by: David Ertel

September 14th, 2012

NIRB recommends using new media technology to inform, consult and connect Inuit communities in its Final Hearing Report on Baffinland's Mary River Project released September 14, 2012.
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uploaded date: 04-01-2019
NITV French Subtitles

uploaded by: IsumaTV

Check out NITV local programming from Igloolik 1995-2007
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uploaded date: 23-05-2011
Norman Cohn Commentary

uploaded by: Norman Cohn

Sometime commentary or information related to IsumaTV's Digital Indigenous Democracy (DID) by Norman Cohn, DID co-director.
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uploaded date: 06-07-2010
One day in the life of Noah Piugattuk

uploaded by: David Ertel

One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk compresses Piugattuk’s 96-year lifetime into a dramatized feature film portrait of one day in that life, a 24-hour day when the sun never sets, out hunting seals on the spring sea ice in May 1961, in the Igloolik region of north Baffin Island.
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uploaded date: 30-03-2019
Private Upload Channel

uploaded by: David Ertel

uploaded date: 16-11-2010
Silakut Live from the Floe Edge

uploaded by: David Ertel

Silakut Live from the Floe Edge is LIVE TV
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uploaded date: 19-03-2019
Skyscrapers

uploaded by: John Hodgins

uploaded date: 28-10-2010
Tanya Tagaq

uploaded by: David Ertel

uploaded date: 26-01-2010
tessellations

uploaded by: David Ertel

fdsda
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uploaded date: 14-07-2010
test

uploaded by: David Ertel

uploaded date: 25-09-2017
Test Channel Live Stream

uploaded by: David Ertel

uploaded date: 21-04-2010
Tipi Raising with Elder Glen Anaquod

uploaded by: Nathalie Kalina

Saulteaux, Muscowpetung First Nation
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uploaded date: 08-03-2010
Venado (Deer)

uploaded by: David Ertel

"The Marakate are guided by fire and feather… in their singing they will find the way… if there are no jicareros to provide the offerings to the sacred place, illness may come, or it may stop raining."

- José María Reza, marakame (chanter, healer, schaman), Cohamiata, July 2002
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uploaded date: 23-06-2010
Venice 2019

uploaded by: David Ertel

In 1985, Zacharias Kunuk broke the race barrier at Canada Council for the Arts when his Inuktitut-language video, From Inuk Point of View, was the first work by an Inuit or Aboriginal artist deemed eligible to apply for a professional artist’s grant. Kunuk was the video’s director; Norman Cohn cameraman; Paul Apak editor; and elder Pauloosie Qulitalik told the story.… Read more

uploaded date: 26-02-2019

Screening Log Book - The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: Isuma Productions

MOST RECENT ENGAGEMENTS AT THE TOP

2007

Prague International Film Festival – Febio Fest – March 27 to April 4

Alle Kino! World Cinema Festival (Warsaw) – November 14 to 25

Ljubljana International Film Festival – November 9 & 20
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uploaded date: 28-09-2009
Contact

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: Isuma Productions

Distribution and International Sales

Isuma Distribution International Inc.
5333 Avenue Casgrain #910
Montréal, QC CANADA
H2T 1X3
tel: +1.514.486.0707 / fax .9851
Norman Cohn, President: cohn@isuma.ca
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uploaded date: 28-09-2009
Press Photos - The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: Isuma Productions

Please click here to download high resolution versions of each image. Unless otherwise noted all images are copyright Isuma Distribution International Inc. Scene shots by Norman Cohn; behind-the-scenes shots by Oana Spinu.
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uploaded date: 25-09-2009
Norman Cohn

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: Isuma Productions

Norman Cohn (b. 1946, New York) is secretary-treasurer and co-founder of Igloolik Isuma’s collective. Living since 1985 both in Igloolik and Montreal, Cohn developed with Kunuk, elder Pauloosie Qulitalik and the late Paul Apak, Isuma’s signature style of ‘re-lived' cultural drama, combining the authenticity of modern video with the ancient art of Inuit storytelling.
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uploaded date: 24-09-2009
Pauloosie Qulitalik

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: Isuma Productions

Pauloosie Qulitalik (b. 1939, Baffin Island) is Canada's first unilingual (Inuktitut-only) Inuk filmmaker, producing for IBC from 1990-92 and receiving a landmark Canada Council video production grant in 1992 as Isuma's producer for Saputi. A respected elder born in 1939, Qulitalik has served for many years as Chairman of Igloolik's Community Education Committee.… Read more

uploaded date: 24-09-2009
Paul Apak Angilirq (1954-1998)

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: Isuma Productions

Paul Apak Angilirq (1954-1998) was vice-president and co-founder of Isuma. Apak began his career in 1978 as a trainee in Canada's Inukshuk Project, the first project to train indigenous TV producers in remote communities. In 1981 Apak joined Inuit Broadcasting Corporation’s and in 1992 IBC honoured him with a Special Recognition Award for his career contribution.… Read more

uploaded date: 24-09-2009
Zacharias Kunuk

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: Isuma Productions

Zacharias Kunuk (b. 1957, Kapuivik near Igloolik) won the Camera d’Or at Cannes 2001 for Isuma’s first feature, Atanarjuat The Fast Runner. He is president and co-founder in 1990 of Igloolik Isuma Productions, Canada’s first Inuit-owned independent production company.… Read more

uploaded date: 24-09-2009
About Us

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: Isuma Productions

Our Company

Igloolik Isuma Productions, Inc. was incorporated in January 1990 as Canada's first Inuit independent production company. Isuma is 75% Inuit-owned.… Read more

uploaded date: 24-09-2009
Interview with Paul Apak Angilirq

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: Isuma Productions

Interviewed by Nancy Wachowich, currently professor at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Paul Apak died in December 1998, before the film was completed.
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uploaded date: 24-09-2009
The Art of Community-Based Filmmaking

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: Isuma Productions

Norman Cohn (b. 1946, New York) is secretary-treasurer and co-founder of Igloolik Isuma’s collective.
… Read more

uploaded date: 24-09-2009
Our Journey Continued From Page 5

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: Isuma Productions

514 years after Columbus 80% of the world’s indigenous people still live in remote rural communities beyond the range of conventional film distribution. Virtually invisible and excluded from modern communications services, a worldwide Aboriginal audience has no influence on the global film industry until it can contribute to the ‘gross box office’ that drives modern media priorities.
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uploaded date: 24-09-2009
Our Journey Continued From Page 4

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: Isuma Productions

2007 is the International Polar Year. The U.S. and other national territories will have their own opportunities for festivals, museums, panel discussions and celebrity support.… Read more

uploaded date: 24-09-2009

Acción 3D

uploaded by: Árbol Televisión Participativa

uploaded date: 18-11-2011
Baker Lake News

uploaded by: Joan Scottie

Joan Scottie is an Isuma tv writer from Baker Lake. She writes about seasonal activities, life on the land, her concerns about environment, nature and culture.
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uploaded date: 19-07-2010
Inuit Tuttarvingat @ NAHO

uploaded by: Inuit Tuttarvingat

uploaded date: 23-09-2010
Isuma Productions

uploaded by: IsumaTV

Our Company
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uploaded date: 30-09-2009
Making connections

uploaded by: Marie-Hélène Cousineau

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?
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uploaded date: 09-07-2010
New Channel Name

uploaded by: davidtest

uploaded date: 27-09-2010
Taloyoak Television

uploaded by: IsumaTV

Welcome to Channel 51 Taloyoak Tv.If you want to view certain videos posted on Isuma.tv let Channel 51 Maintainer Joseph Quqqiaq Jr know which video or videos you would like to view on Taloyoak Tv Channel 51.Thank You,Enjoy!!!
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uploaded date: 05-11-2014

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Brief

2006

September 2012 - June 2013

Call in

Book Screenings

Sivulliit

September 14th, 2012

Distribution and International Sales

Our Company