I am a visual artist and a filmmaker, who has been working with Kingulliit productions since 2015 and with Arnait since 2012. Originally from Bulgaria, I have brought my own intercultural experience to my work with Inuit. Inspired by Kingulliit’s style, which prioritizes the power of the human experience, I have worked in the post production section of Kingulliit helping to bring that style to life through editing, and post production supervision. I helped train Inuit in video editing and have been instrumental in implementing a North-South editing system, which gives our Northern editors liberty and support.
I also bring my artistic experience to various projects of Kingulliit. I contributed to the Time Machine comic stories, and am currently leading the interactive map project “On The Land with Noah Piugattuk”.See more
In 1992, Zacharias Kunuk wanted to know more about Ayaya songs. He found out that the songs are riddles, because in Inuit culture they cannot say elder's names or direct animal names. Instead of saying "polar bear", they would say "the big white animal".
Noah Piugattuk started bringing back drum dancing and storytelling in his last years. He said that, unlike what the church was teaching them, not everything was only good or only bad, and Inuit traditions could not be just bad.
Jenny Vestey Vernon is a researcher who lived in Igloolik in the late 1960's and studied Inuit settlment patterns. She notes that women did not have easy lives, and many of them needed medical attention. When they got older, a lot of them moved to town to be nearer the Nursing Station.
A planner comes and makes a plan of Igloolik like a Southern town. Then he moved some of the houses which had been built in a chaotic manner, and moved them onto the streets he had drawn.
In Caribou Clothing and Storyteling Elders tell stories of people who lived on the land; showing us what the story is today, what it looks like now and who goes there now…with many questions around: are people still hunting caribou? Is it still a caribou route? Are there development companies working there now?
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.
NITV’s Online Video Mentoring (Tagrijausiunimut Atuagaq) project aims to inspire a new generation of Inuit filmmakers with the capacity to tell their stories, promote their culture and use video to revitalize and sustain the active use of Inuit Language.
Tunnganariq Nunagijavut (Welcome to Where We Live Now) is a weekly, live cultural and current affairs series produced in-house by Uvagut TV with community partners throughout Inuit Nunangat.
This week on Welcome To Our Qammaq: Carol Kunnuk presents a segment shot last year, when the department of Culture and Heritage hosted a drum dance and ajaajaa event.
This week on Welcome To Our Qammaq: Nataq Ungalaq interviews Paul Quassa about Baffinland, and a clip from 2020 of Zach Kunuk making pissi (dried fish).
On Sunday August 4th, the 12th Annual Arviat Ball Hockey Tournament played it's championship game, between The Arviat Warriors and The Benchwarmers. Commentary by Connie Kalluak, and camera by Ethan Tassiuk. Intermissions and some of the awards ceremony have been cut for time.
On this special episode of Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Arviat, host Connie Kalluak welcomes Jacob Okatsiak and William Bob Issumatarjuak back to the show for some music.
This week on Welcome to Our Qammaq: Zach, Nataq and rest of the Kingulliit workers went boating this Tuesday up to Calthorpe Island (Qaiksut) and Skeoch Bay (Kapuivit) while looking for Seal and Walrus. Presented by Marcy Siakuluk.
On this episode of Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Arviat, Charmaine Komak speaks with Robert Hallauk, and we watch him begin a carving made out of limestone.
Featuring some music by Billy Kuksuk while Robert is carving.
On this episode of Welcome to our Qammaq: Marcy Siakuluk presents some clips from this week of the team setting up tents and doing some net fishing from small boats. Featuring Nataq Ungalaq, Zacharias Kunuk, Marnie Palluq, Annalisa Arnatsiaq, and others. Shot by Mark Jr. Malliki and Zacharias Kunuk, edited by Mark Jr. Malliki.
The topic for this episode of Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Arviat is relocation. Evano Jr. Aggark will speak with Peter Paungalaak. There will also be a short segment of Connie Kalluak reading a plaque about the history of the Ahiarmiut relocations. LIVE on July 25th, 2024.
On this episode of Welcome To Our Qammaq, Marcy Siakuluk presents some footage shot this week. Zacharias, Jerry and Israel went down to Qikiqtaajuk to go boating, but they ended up having a dead battery. The day after they brought a battery down to the boat and started boating around.
Bambi Tagyiluk Aullaran Amos hosts this show and tours the 35th Annual Great Northern Arts Festival Gallery and workshop space! We'll watch the show as she speaks with a few artists, ending with some highlights from the fashion show on Friday night.
Bambi Tagyiluk Aullaran Amos hosts this show and presents the 35th Annual Great Northern Arts Festival Fashion Show. We'll watch the show and hear from designer and model Dustin Smith at the end of the show.
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.