Of Ravens and Children

Sivummut: Going Forward

2013

6-Part Documentary Series

Sing it out for the world to hear!

This is what mentors in traditional Inuit culture would do when a protégé succeeded and it what Sivummut: Going Forward does in six episodes that celebrate the triumphs of Inuit leaders in the arts, sports, the environment, health care, and education.

Come with us and sing the praises of these inspiring women and men throughout this documentary series scheduled to air on APTN in 2014.

The Uluit: Champions of the North

2011

5-Part Documentary Series

Mothers, daughters, sisters and friends bonded by a sport they love and a way of life they cherish.

Filmed over the course of a year in Inukjuak, Nunavik, in northern Quebec, this character-driven documentary series follows The Uluit –an Inuit female hockey team– on their way to win the 2010 Great Whale Hockey Cup.

The emotional story of these extraordinary daughters, mothers, grandmothers and friends represents the pillars of strength that unites their community: Teachers, midwives, social workers, students, they embrace modern life in an isolated world not without its disheartening challenges, while searching for glory on the ice.

This five-part documentary series was co-produced with Rotating Planet Productions and airs on APTN.

The Uluit is a team of women playing hockey in Inukjuak. They are women of all ages, mothers and grand-mothers, students and workers having fun on the ice. The series will consist of 5 episodes aired on APTN in 2011. Co-produced with Montreal based company, Rotating Planet.

Arnait Video Productions and Rotating Planet are co-producing a documentary series of 5 episodes about an amazing all women hockey team in Inukjuak, Nunavik, The Uluit. We will follow the lives of these remarkable women, athletes and mothers, grand-mothers, students and workers, who are role models in their community and in the North. The series will aired on APTN in 2011.

Please use the captions provided and credit Arnait Video Productions Inc. (unless indicated otherwise).

SOL

We are currently in production on a new documentary film entitled SOL.

On September 24th, 2012 Sol Tapatia Uyurasuk, a 26 year-old Inuk, was found dead in the RCMP station in the remote arctic community of Igloolik, Nunavut.

That morning, rumours started flying on Facebook and in the community: How did he die? Word was that is was suicide, but there were doubts. How could it have happened under police supervision? The story of Sol is a mystery, but it is also an all-too familiar tragedy.

Produced in collaboration with Allarco Entertainment, SOL is sceduled to air on the Super Channel.

Women-Health-Body

This is a series of a dozen unedited interviews with traditional midwives of Igloolik. These interviews recorded in 1992 and 1993 were made with women who have now passed away since. Copies of interviews are available in the Oral Traditions archives of the Northwest Territories in Yellowknife and on IsumaTV.

Itivimiut

This is a series of interviews conducted in Igloolik and Mittimatalik. Elders speak of the traditional roads and paths on Baffin Island, between Igloolik and Mittimatalik. Copies of interviews are available in the Oral Traditions archives of the Northwest Territories in Yellowknife.