Gabriela Gamez

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Since 2006 I have been working as part of the Isuma collective with indigenous children, artists and media makers in the Canadian Arctic and Latin America, exploring new solutions using video, art and new media technologies as tools for social transformation. I am currently working with John and Ruben on a project called Time Machine, a project to Inuit make comic stories using iPods or mobiles. In 2011, with the help and guidance of a group of inspiring people, I designed ARTCO as a project to experiment ways in which we can explore and practice the power, the benefit, and the creative energy of collective action. The questions behind ARTCO were: How can children and youth use new media to share experience, resolve common problems and find new ways to communicate across old barriers? and What is the “tool-kit” they need to be active participants in the reality they live in? Under the direction of Norman Cohn, I was responsible of the design and concept creation of www.isuma.tv a collaborative multimedia platform for indigenous filmmakers and media organizations, where each user can design their own space, or channel, to reflect their own identity, mandate and audience. Within Isuma I was also project manager of the web platform of Digital Indigenous Democracy (DID); DIAMA, a project for digitizing the Inuit and Aboriginal media archive; and, the Indigenous Film Network project for community film distribution. I was born in Mexico City and have lived in Montreal, Canada since 2006. I studied Sociology and Political Science. In Mexico I worked as a consultant for UNESCO and the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Mexican Department for Education (SEP) and the Mexican Department for Social Development (SEDESOL). I love being with my friends and family, yoga, walking, running, listening to music and I'm getting back to playing piano. Oh! and I love coffee!See more

Activity

  • 4m 38s

    Hoopla!

    uploaded by: kenleslie

    channel: haidawood

    This movie was made as part of the Haidawood Media Project over a two week period in the summer of 2007. Haidawood aims to make short stop motion animated movies with the help of Haida youth, artists, and language teachers, to help promote and teach the Haida language.

    Filmmaker: Ken Leslie

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    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 20-03-2008

  • 56s

    Before Tomorrow sample trailer

    uploaded by: Norman Cohn

    channel: DIAMA 2008-2009

    Isuma in-house trailer for Before Tomorrow, Isuma's third feature film, the story of a woman and her grandson who face the ultimate challenge of survival and discover that human dignity is the core of life from beginning to end.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 17-03-2008

  • 6m 6s

    Okichitaw

    uploaded by: tamara bull

    channel: FirstTalk

    Okichitaw is a martial art developed by Canadian martial artist, George J. Lépine, (1962, Manitoba, Canada) based on the fighting techniques of the Assiniboine and Plains Cree Indian Nations, which have been maintained within his family for generations.

    Filmmaker: Tamara Bull

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    www.firsttalk.net

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 11-03-2008

  • 6m 19s

    Laughter Yoga

    uploaded by: tamara bull

    channel: FirstTalk

    Did you know that the average child laughs between 300 and 400 times per day? By the time we reach adulthood we are reduced to laughing, on average, only 12 times a day! Laughter has been proven to reduce stress, pain, and depression while improving creativity, physical vitality and a sense of well being.

    Filmmaker: Tamara Bull

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 11-03-2008

  • 6m 25s

    Frank Austin Manyhorses Healing

    uploaded by: tamara bull

    channel: FirstTalk

    Frank Austin Manyhorses is a healer that offers a ceremony to clear negative energy.

    Filmmaker: Tamara Bull

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    Cedar Root Productions www.cedarrootproductions.com

    Producer's Name: Tamara Bull

    Year of Production: 2008

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 11-03-2008

  • 10m 28s

    And Native Land

    uploaded by: 7th Generation Image Makers

    channel: 7thGen

    And Native Land explores National Identity in the tense atmosphere around Six Nations / Caledonia. What does it mean to be Canadian? What does it mean to be Native? Is it possible to be both?

    Filmmaker: Miles Turner

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    www.7thgen.org

    Producer's Name: 7th Generation image Makers

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 20-02-2008

  • 4m 19s

    Save The Skywoman

    uploaded by: 7th Generation Image Makers

    channel: 7thGen

    In this short video based on a traditional story, Skywoman returns to earth, only to discover that humans have wreaked havoc on the environment, making our future dangerously unstable.

    Filmmaker: Kate Brascoupe

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    www.7thgen.org

    Producer's Name: 7th Generation image Makers

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 19-02-2008

  • 5m 21s

    Dan Wallace Speaking Out

    uploaded by: tamara bull

    channel: FirstTalk

    Sexual Abuse in the native community must end. We need to make it a priority with our leaders.

    Filmmaker: Tamara Bell

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    Tamara Bell www.cedarrootproductions.com

    Producer's Name: Tamara Bell

    Year of Production: 2008

    Country: Canada

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 14-02-2008

  • 12m 15s

    Issaittuq Trailer

    uploaded by: Artcirq

    channel: Artcirq

    This is the trailer of the film "Issaittuq". A story about a young Inuk who lost his love. Using alcohol, he is trying to put the reality and the past behind, but the past keeps hunting him. One day he looses control of himself and starts beating a man who's walking on a street beside his house.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 14-02-2008

  • 6m 43s

    Progress Park

    uploaded by: 7th Generation Image Makers

    channel: 7thGen

    An ambitious reporter is sent to interview an Indigenous elder to get some "real poetic and stoic stuff" for coverage of a conference on the environment. What she finds is a reminder that she didn't realize she needed to hear.

    Filmmaker: John Hupfield

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    www.7thgen.org

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 13-02-2008

  • 4m 16s

    My Staus Card

    uploaded by: 7th Generation Image Makers

    channel: 7thGen

    In My Staus Card, Cheyenne Redman Gervais takes a long hard look at everyone's favourite piece of plastic...

    Filmmaker: Cheyenne Redman Gervais

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    www.7thgen.org

    Producer's Name: 7th Generation image Makers

    Year of Production: 2006

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 13-02-2008

  • About ARTCO

    uploaded by: David Ertel

    Brief

    Inuit and Cree children use new media tools through a multidisciplinary artistic process to explore their past and present realities, connect with others, practice collective action and create a better future.

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 10-12-2012

  • Distribution

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    These urls are direct links to 1080p h264 files for Isuma Productions. They can be copied (right-click and select "Copy Link Location") and pasted and emailed directly to authorized clients. These urls are specially encoded and stop working after 24 hours from the time you loaded this page.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 27-01-2010

  • 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.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 29-04-2009

  • Old Massett Television

    uploaded by: Haida

    Local server Media Players broadcast films from IsumaTV’s website to home viewers 24/7 by local TV. Call or Facebook your Station Manager to comment or add any film or video you want to watch. Contact info@isuma.tv.

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 24-04-2014

  • Our Baffinland Atlas

    uploaded by: Ian Mauro

    ABOUT OUR BAFFINLAND

    The Arctic is warming double the global average, decreasing sea ice, making it easier to access and extract mineral and oil resources from the region, and this cumulative climatic and economic change has significant human and environmental health implications for Inuit and their communities.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 12-09-2013

  • The Fast Runner Trilogy

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    Three unique Inuit films expressing 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.

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 23-10-2009

  • UNU

    uploaded by: UNUChannel

    Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change videobriefs series. A series of short UNU videobriefs exploring climate change and its impacts from the perspectives of Indigenous community members in Australia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

    Available for summit viewing:
    Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change videobriefs series
    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 21-04-2009