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

  • 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”).

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    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).

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    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! 

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    uploaded date: 13-04-2020

  • 5m 21s

    Dan Wallace Speaking Out

    uploaded by: tamara bull

    channel: FirstTalk

    Sexual Abuse in the native community must end. We need to make it a priority with our leaders.

    Filmmaker: Tamara Bell

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    Tamara Bell www.cedarrootproductions.com

    Producer's Name: Tamara Bell

    Year of Production: 2008

    Country: Canada

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    uploaded date: 14-02-2008

  • 12m 15s

    Issaittuq Trailer

    uploaded by: Artcirq

    channel: Artcirq

    This is the trailer of the film "Issaittuq". A story about a young Inuk who lost his love. Using alcohol, he is trying to put the reality and the past behind, but the past keeps hunting him. One day he looses control of himself and starts beating a man who's walking on a street beside his house.… Read more

    uploaded date: 14-02-2008

  • 6m 43s

    Progress Park

    uploaded by: 7th Generation Image Makers

    channel: 7thGen

    An ambitious reporter is sent to interview an Indigenous elder to get some "real poetic and stoic stuff" for coverage of a conference on the environment. What she finds is a reminder that she didn't realize she needed to hear.

    Filmmaker: John Hupfield

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    www.7thgen.org

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    uploaded date: 13-02-2008

  • 4m 16s

    My Staus Card

    uploaded by: 7th Generation Image Makers

    channel: 7thGen

    In My Staus Card, Cheyenne Redman Gervais takes a long hard look at everyone's favourite piece of plastic...

    Filmmaker: Cheyenne Redman Gervais

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    www.7thgen.org

    Producer's Name: 7th Generation image Makers

    Year of Production: 2006

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    uploaded date: 13-02-2008

  • 7m 35s

    Life's Stripes

    uploaded by: 7th Generation Image Makers

    channel: 7thGen

    Combining elements of military life with street ball, Gervais creates a meshed reality where life is a proving ground and the only path to success is through grit, self resolve, and a smooth jump shot.

    Filmmaker: Cheyenne Redman Gervais

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    www.7thgen.org

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    uploaded date: 13-02-2008

  • 7m 5s

    Nightmare

    uploaded by: 7th Generation Image Makers

    channel: 7thGen

    They’ve taken our homes, our land, and now they’re after our blood...

    Filmmaker: Michael Crawford

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    ajones@nativechild.org

    Producer's Name: 7th Generation image Makers

    Year of Production: 2007

    Country: Canada

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    uploaded date: 13-02-2008

  • 10m 53s

    Addict

    uploaded by: 7th Generation Image Makers

    channel: 7thGen

    A short film about a young man living in downtown Toronto, and the pressures of his world.

    Filmmaker: Brad Nolan

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    ajones@nativechild.org

    Producer's Name: 7th Generation Image Makers

    Year of Production: 2005

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    uploaded date: 13-02-2008

  • 4m 48s

    Clear Cut

    uploaded by: 7th Generation Image Makers

    channel: 7thGen

    Clear Cut is a deeply personal found-footage reflection on mixed race identity. John Hupfield is Anishnawbe from Wasauksing First Nation on Perry Island. Clear Cut is his first video.

    Filmmaker: John Hupfield

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    z_branigan@hotmail.com

    Producer's Name: 7th Generation image Makers

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    uploaded date: 13-02-2008

  • 23m 4s

    Souriii

    uploaded by: Artcirq

    channel: Artcirq

    A trip to Pucalpa in the Peruvian Amazon

    Year of Production: 2009

    Distributor Information:

     

    www.artcirq.org

    Country: Canada

    Region: Nunavut

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    uploaded date: 08-02-2008

  • 8m 17s

    The Sundance

    uploaded by: tamara bull

    channel: FirstTalk

    This is a wonderful examination of the Sundance, a sacred ceremony that began in the Plains of North America.

    Filmmaker: Tamara Bull

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    www.firsttalk.net

    Producer's Name: Cedar Root Productions

    Year of Production: 2008

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    uploaded date: 07-02-2008

  • 5m 6s

    Conversation With Dave Swallow Medicine Man

    uploaded by: tamara bull

    channel: FirstTalk

    This short piece is a compelling look into first nations views on traditional spirituality and western religion.

    Filmmaker: Tamara Bull

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    Tamara Bull cedarrootproductions.com firsttalkshow@yahoo.ca

    Producer's Name: Cedar Root Productions

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    uploaded date: 07-02-2008

  • 26m 57s

    All the way to Timbuktu

    uploaded by: Artcirq

    channel: Artcirq

    All the way to Timbuktu.

    A documentary of the journey from the Arctic to Timbuktu, for the Festival au Desert. 10 young people, 6 from Igloolik, 2 from Iqaluit and 2 from france, meet in the sahara desert to perform in Bamako and Timbuktu, and give circus workshops to youth on the way.

     

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    uploaded date: 03-02-2008