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Filmmaker: Marie-Hélène Cousineau

Filmmaker Contact: Visit our website www.isuma.tv/arnait or www.isuma.ca

Producer's Name: Arnait Video Productions

Year of Production: 1996

Distributor Information:

This video shows excerpts of our pilot survey project, Tusaviit. We designed a project that would enable women across Nunavut to express their needs and their opinions via a simple and easy to use mobile survey kit and web-based application. You can find more information about this and other Arnait projects on our website, www.arnaitvideo.ca. The film is in Inuktitut and English.

Noah Piugattuk was one of the must respected elders in Igloolik and the chief of the last family asked by the RCMP to leave the outpost camp and settle in Igloolik. This video is part of an interview series produced by the IBC about him where he talks about this experience.

Noah Piugattuk was one of the must respected elders in Igloolik and the chief of the last family asked by the RCMP to leave the outpost camp and settle in Igloolik. This video is part of an interview series produced by the IBC about him where he talks about this experience.

Producer's Name: IBC

Noah Piugattuk was one of the must respected elders in Igloolik and the chief of the last family asked by the RCMP to leave the outpost camp and settle in Igloolik. This video is part of an interview series produced by the IBC about him where he talks about this experience.

Producer's Name: IBC

Noah Piugattuk was one of the must respected elders in Igloolik and the chief of the last family asked by the RCMP to leave the outpost camp and settle in Igloolik. This video is part of an interview series produced by the IBC about him where he talks about this experience.

Producer's Name: IBC

Noah Piugattuk was one of the must respected elders in Igloolik and the chief of the last family asked by the RCMP to leave the outpost camp and settle in Igloolik. This video is part of an interview series produced by the IBC about him where he talks about this experience.

Producer's Name: IBC

Noah Piugattuk was one of the must respected elders in Igloolik and the chief of the last family asked by the RCMP to leave the outpost camp and settle in Igloolik. This video is part of an interview series produced by the IBC about him where he talks about this experience.

Paul Apak Angilirq (1954-1998) was vice-president and co-founder of Igloolik Isuma Productions in 1990. Apak began his career in 1978 as a trainee in Canada's Inukshuk Project, the first project to train indigenous TV producers in remote communities. He worked for IBC.… En savoir plus

Umiaq is a documentary about a group of elders in Igloolik, who decide to build an umiaq, a boat covered with seal skins. In Inuktitut.

Filmmaker: Madeline Ivalu, Carol Kunnuk

Filmmaker Contact:

info [at] arnaitvideo [dot] ca

Producer's Name: Arnait Video Productions

Early 90's interview, Why We Do This? Zach Kunuk, Qulitalik, Norman Cohn, 42:09, Inuktitut and English, three partners of Igloolik Isuma Productions interview themselves about the meaning of their work together. Shot sometime in the early 1990's, date unknown.

Rooted in tradition, adoption is a reality which all Inuit families have experienced. In Inuit culture, adopting a child from a relative, friend or acquaintance is extremely common. Marie-Hélène Cousineau, the adoptive mother of Alexandre Apak, lived in Igloolik, a small island southwest of Baffin Island in the Arctic, for many years.

YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 1996
DURATION: 6 min
GENRE: Computer animation
FORMAT: Video (colour)
LANGUAGE: Inuktitut Eng/Fr st.
CAST/PERFORMERS: Madeline Ivalu
DIRECTOR: Mary Kunuk
PRODUCER: Arnait Video Collective… En savoir plus

This second Isuma-Artcirq co-production by Igloolik youth is a story about a young Inuk who lost his love. Using alcohol to put reality and the past behind, the past keeps hunting him. When he loses control and beats up a man on the street he is sentenced to two months in an outpost camp, where a hunter is waiting for him.

Filmmaker: Bruce Haulli-Kenneth Rasmussen

A group of Nunavut elders travel to five museums in North America to see and identify artifacts, tools and clothing collected from their Inuit ancestors. Directed by Zacharias Kunuk and Bernadette Dean.

Filmmaker: Zacharias Kunuk, Bernadette Dean

Filmmaker Contact: zkunuk [at] isuma [dot] ca; saniruaq [at] qiniq [dot] com; www.isuma.ca