ᐅᕙᒍᑦ Uvagut TV / Our Independent Inuit Television

THIS WEEK: Join us at 11AM EST on Wednesday as elders, spokespersons and performers from across Inuit Nunangat join co-hosts Lucy Tulugarjuk and Zacharias Kunuk for a special two-hour live program to celebrate the launch of Uvagut TV - Canada's first Inuktut television channel.   The show will feature throat singing, drum dancing as well as performances by opera singer Deantha Edmunds from Nunatsiavut, "Inuindie' singer-songwriter Beatrice Deer from Nunavik, Igloolik's Angela Amarualik whose fusion style blends traditional and pop music and multi-disciplinary performer-musician Terry Uyarak also from Igloolik.   The program will be rebroadcast from 6PM to 8PM.

Uvagut TV's LIVE broadcasts of NIRB Baffinland Mary River Phase 2 Public Hearings will resume in April. Canada’s first Inuktut television channel is on Shaw Direct basic satellite 267 nationally; Arctic Co-ops cable 240 in Nunavut and NWT; FCNQ cable 308 in Nunavik; and online here.

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Uvagut TV

By Inuit in Inuktut (60% English subtitles): children's series, movies, documentaries, live shows and priceless archives by Isuma, Kingulliit, Arnait Video, Artcirq, Taqqut, NITV and other independent Inuit producers; and by Inuit Broadcasting Corporation (IBC), Inuvialuit Communications Society (ICS) and other media organizations. Uvagut TV is owned and operated by Nunavut Independent Television Network (NITV) and IsumaTV. Bell, Rogers and other cable-satellite services coming soon, stay tuned.

Programming Partners

  • NITV

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    Founded in 1991 in Igloolik, NITV (Nunavut Independent Television Network, formerly called Tarriaksuk Video Centre) is Canada's first artist-run media centre in a remote Inuit community, adapting Inuit oral traditions to modern media technologies.… Read more

    uploaded date: 31-08-2020

  • ISUMA

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    ISUMA, meaning ‘to think,’ is a collective of Inuit-owned related companies based since 1990 in Igloolik, Nunavut with a southern office in Montreal. In January 1990 four partners Zacharias Kunuk, Paul Apak, Pauloosie Qulitalik and Norman Cohn incorporated Igloolik Isuma Productions Inc.… Read more

    uploaded date: 31-08-2020

  • ARNAIT

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    The women of Arnait have found that building connections to our traditions and, thereby, with the lives of our ancestors, gives shape and vitality to the lives we are leading and to the whole of the world we are sharing. Our inspiration is rooted in the past and blossoms in the present – to shine as an example for those around us.… Read more

    uploaded date: 31-08-2020

  • TAQQUT

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    Taqqut Productions Inc. is an Inuit-owned film production company. Its head office is located in Iqaluit, Nunavut. While primarily a film production company, Taqqut also provides other project production services, such as web design, marketing, and technical writing.… Read more

    uploaded date: 31-08-2020

  • ARTCIRQ

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    Artcirq is an Inuit artistic collective based in Igloolik, Nunavut.

    Founded in 1998 to combat youth suicide with artistic opportunity, Artcirq has evolved into a community-based circus and multimedia organization, allowing northern and southern artists to bridge and meet in a meaningful and creative way.

    … Read more

    uploaded date: 31-08-2020

  • ARVIAT TV KIVALLIQ

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    Arviat TV channel is created by Arviat Tarralijaarvik Film Society. NITV Community TV Channel in Arviat broadcasts local programming.

    … Read more

    uploaded date: 31-08-2020

  • KITIKMEOT TV

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    The Kitikmeot Heritage Society is located in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. The Kitkmeot Inuit Association Department of Social and Cultural Development is responsible for planning, developing and managing KIA programs and services that enhance Inuit Culture, Language and wellness.… Read more

    uploaded date: 31-08-2020

Uvagut TV : NITV licensed features, series and projects

  • Isuma Video on Demand

    uploaded by: Gabriela Gamez

    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: 12-03-2019

    • Isuma Video on Demand

      uploaded by: Gabriela Gamez

      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: 12-03-2019

    • Hunting With My Ancestors

      uploaded by: AHadmin

      In the seven part series, Hunting with my Ancestors, Zacharias Kunuk retraces the hunting traditions of his ancestors in a modern context. He follows Inuit elders leading the hunts for whale, walrus, seal, fish, caribou and polar bear. We hear them recount stories of the past, share the pain of forced relocations, and teach a younger generation how to hunt.… Read more

      uploaded date: 28-09-2016

    • One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk

      uploaded by: Gabriela Gamez

      In April 1961, John Kennedy is America’s new President, the Cold War heats up in Berlin and nuclear bombers are deployed from bases in arctic Canada. In Kapuivik, north Baffin Island, Noah Piugattuk’s nomadic Inuit band live and hunt by dog team as his ancestors did when he was born in 1900.… Read more

      uploaded date: 14-03-2019

    • Restless River

      uploaded by: IsumaTV

      Kuujjuaq, Nunavik 1940s. Surprised at the loss of her innocence, the young Inuk Elsa draws courage from her rugged land to become a woman as strong and independent as the restless river that cuts across it. She becomes the very young mother of a child whose remarkable life breaks with the millennial traditions of her ancestors.… Read more

      uploaded date: 29-04-2020

    • ARNAIT NIPINGIT : WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SUMMIT

      uploaded by: Marie-Hélène Cousineau

      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.

      … Read more

      uploaded date: 03-09-2010

    • Tia and Piujuq

      uploaded by: clairelittoncohn

      Summer moves slowly for Tia, a 10-year-old Syrian girl who has recently moved to Montreal with her parents, as she struggles to make new friends. When she finds a magic portal that transports her to the arctic tundra, she befriends Piujuq, an Inuk girl of her age, and they immerse themselves in a world of Inuit myth and magic.

      … Read more

      uploaded date: 13-03-2019

    • IBC

      uploaded by: Gabriela Gamez

      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

      uploaded date: 15-01-2009

    • 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

    • Angirattut (Coming Home)

      uploaded by: IsumaTV

      Angirattut (Coming Home) is a 90-minute documentary film directed by Zacharias Kunuk which follows Inuit extended family homecoming voyage to traditional home site, to celebrate ancestors' history of life on the land and to mourn the loss of modern relocation between worlds.

      … Read more

      uploaded date: 04-02-2015

    • Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change

      uploaded by: Ian Mauro

      About the film

      Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change had its world premiere October 23, 2010, at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto. The complete film also streamed online simultaneously watched by more than 1500 viewers around the world. Following the film, a Q&A with filmmakers Zacharias Kunuk and Dr.… Read more

      uploaded date: 29-04-2009

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