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Qikiqtani Voices
Qikiqtani Voices is an initiative by NITV and filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk to bring community capacity and infrastructure to help the North Baffin communities participate constructively in ongoing dialogue and consultation about the Mary River mine.
Amitturmiut - People of Ammituq
As the companion website for Zacharias Kunuk's documentary film Angirattut (Coming Home), Amitturmiut brings together genealogical data, archives, outtakes from the film to re-traces family connections dislocated during the widespread relocations of the 1960s in Nunavut.
Haida Script Development Project
The Haida community page is dedicated to telling stories from the Haida perspective. Working in the communities of Skidegate and Old Massett, this page is made possible through the Haida Film and Media Project, a collaboration between the Council of the Haida Nation, Skidegate Band Council, Old Massett Village Council, UBC School of Regional and Community Planning, and NITV (Nunavut Independent Television Network).
The Fast Runner Trilogy
Three unique Inuit films: Atanarjuat The Fast Runner; The Journals of Knud Rasmussen; and Before Tomorrow, express the dramatic history of one of the world’s oldest oral cultures from it’s own point of view. “A masterpiece... The first national cinema of the 21st century.” – A.O. Scott, NY Times review of Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, 2002.
Artcirq - Inuit Performance Collective
What started in 1998 as an Inuit circus based in Igloolik (Nunavut) has evolved throughout the years into a community-oriented performance and multimedia organisation, allowing local artists to collaborate in a meaningful way with other northern as well as southern artists.
Digital Indigenous Democracy (DID)
Launched in 2012, to adapt modern new media to the urgent needs of Nunavut communities facing an upsurge in global warming and transnational mining development, DID bridges the digital divide facing Inuit communities, to give them a say as developers move to take advantage of their resource-rich land.
Arviat Television
ArviatTV is a community initiative providing positive early career exposure, skills, training and professional development in digital literacy, film, emerging media and research to young people and students in Arviat (Nunavut, Canada).
Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA)
This 'Multimedia Human Rights Impact Assessment' project demonstrates the value of new media for improving consultation with Inuit in the context of northern resource developments hoping to meet 21st century constitutional and international human rights standards. This is a ground-breaking project that provides a platform for on-going consultation with people in affected communities, delivers online information in Inuktitut about resource development and the relevant human rights standards, and presents formal reports to the Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) and other actors about the project certificate and initial operations of Baffinland's Mary River Mine.
Tungijuq
Internationally renowned Inuit throat-singer Tanya Tagaq, and Cannes-winning filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, talk back to the anti seal-hunting lobby, in this thought-provoking and meditative short film, on the seal-hunt and what it means to the traditional way of life of the Inuit.
Igloolik Television - Channel 51
Igloolik is an island in the Nunavut territory of the Canadian Arctic, with a population of approximately 2000 Inuit. It is where Isuma, the first independent Inuit film production company, was born. Media is distributed online on IsumaTV and, through the Mediaplayer Network, broadcasted on the community channel in every home television in Igloolik.
Cultural Survival
Cultural Survival partners with Indigenous Peoples to defend their lands, languages, and cultures. Their Indigenous Right Radio series in English, Spanish, and Indigenous languages showcases strategies for implementing rights, because being informed and organized is a community’s best defense.
Our Baffinland
The Our Baffinland project explores Inuit knowledge regarding mining, and maps a walrus and caribou hunting expedition and associated interviews with elders across this land to highlight some of the complexities of "Arctic Development".
UVANGA, THE MOVIE / PORTRAIT OF CHILDREN
Companion website for Uvanga, the second feature film of the Arnait video collective, shot entirely on location in Nunavut.Portrait of Children is a collection of video testimonies from Inuit children about life in their environment.
IsumaTV First Online Film Festival
IsumaTV First Online Film Festival from March 2 to April 1, 2015 brings international and remote viewers an exciting and engaging online program of indigenous feature films, documentaries and shorts. The festival features two world premieres by internationally acclaimed Inuit film director, Zacharias Kunuk; a fascinating selection from the TIFF Cinematheque; and a showcase collection of 40 Inuit films and videos.
Maliglutit (Searchers)
COMING SOON Kingulliit Productions presents Zacharias Kunuk latest feature film Maliglutit (Searchers).Nunavut, circa 1913. Kuanana returns from a caribou hunt to discover his wife and daughter kidnapped, and the rest of his family slaughtered. His father's spirit helper, the loon Kallulik, sets him on course to overturn fate and reunite his family.Follow the film at Facebook.com/Maliglutit
