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

  • 23m 9s

    Minganie Chronicle (part 1)

    uploaded by: Eddy Malenfant

    channel: Manitu

    To know the history of Cananda

    Filmmaker: Eddty Malenfant

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    www.innuaitun.com eddy@maikan.com

    Producer's Name: Zacharie Bellefleur Eddy Malenfant

    Year of Production: 2003

    Distributor Information:

     

    Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 25-01-2008

  • 2m 42s

    Minganie Chronicle (intro)

    uploaded by: Eddy Malenfant

    channel: Manitu

    This is the history of Canada with a innu point of view.

    Filmmaker: Eddy Malenfant

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    www.innuaitun.com eddy@maikan.com

    Producer's Name: Zacharie Bellefleur

    Year of Production: 2003

    Distributor Information:

     

    Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 23-01-2008

  • 3m 55s

    the Love you give

    uploaded by: Castille Troy

    channel: loveyougive

    Inuit, Metis, and First Nation Youth prevent violence and promote healthy equal relationships.

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    www.loveyougive.org info@loveyougive.org

    Year of Production: 2009

    Distributor Information:

     

    Minwaashin Lodge - Aboriginal Women's Support Centre

    Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 21-01-2008

  • 2m 18s

    Translation - Syco & Big T Crazy

    uploaded by: Ryan Beardy

    channel: mistasmokalot

    Aboriginal Hip-Hop Music video, mainly to showcase the song/single, with really no direction to the video but with footage of Sioux Lookout. For fun.

    Filmmaker: Ryan

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    http://www.youtube.com/mistasmokalot

    Producer's Name: Ryan

    Year of Production: 2006

    Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 17-01-2008

  • 50m 37s

    Artcirq

    uploaded by: Artcirq

    channel: Artcirq

    Artcirq tells the story of how a group of young circus performers try to teach young Inuit to use circus to find more meaning in life and reject suicide.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 20-12-2007

  • 34m 52s

    Amazonia

    uploaded by: Artcirq

    channel: Artcirq

    A youth oriented reflexion through video and interviews about the situation of 2 natives worlds, in 2 opposite geographic context, the Peruvian Amazonia and the Canadian high Arctic. Contrast and similitude...

    Filmmaker: Guillaume Saladin

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    www.artcirq.org

    Producer's Name: artcirq

    Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 13-12-2007

  • 2m 44s

    Fibonacci laboratory

    uploaded by: Artcirq

    channel: Artcirq

    Artcirq (Igloolik), Les 7 Doigts de la main (Montreal), and Cirko de Mente (Mexico) working together for the first time in october 2007, Monterrey, Mexico.This is just the beginning... Follow "Fibonacci project 2008"

    Filmmaker: Solomon Uyarasuk

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    www.artcirq.org

    Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 11-12-2007

  • 45m 7s

    Issaittuq (Waterproof)

    uploaded by: Artcirq

    channel: Artcirq

    This is 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. Because of his violent act his been sentenced to go to an outpost camp for two months, a camp where a hunter is waiting for him.

    Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 01-12-2007

  • 6m 34s

    Maana (Now)

    uploaded by: Artcirq

    channel: Our Lands

    A young Inuk, acknowledging the global warming and its impacts on his community, intends to reduce drastically the energy consumption of his village.

    Filmmaker: Félix Pharand D.

    Filmmaker Contact: www.artcirq.org /  www.globaia.org

    Producer's Name: Guillaume Saladin / Artcirq

    Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 01-11-2007

  • 10m 41s

    Inuusivut

    uploaded by: Artcirq

    channel: Artcirq

    This is the first music video clip ever made in Igloolik, with the band "Eskiez", a very nice inspiration for all other musicians in town!! Other music video clips are on the way.

    Filmmaker: Guillaume Saladin and Derek Aqqiaquq

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    www.artcirq.org

    Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 01-11-2007

  • 4m 35s

    Short Skit of Artcirq

    uploaded by: Artcirq

    channel: Artcirq

    This video is part of a series of other documentaries around a youth Inuit group, Artcirq, who are trying to express their reality and identity in modern days.

    Filmmaker: Natar Ungalaq

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    Visit our website www.artcirq.org

    Producer's Name: Natar Ungalaq

    Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 22-10-2007

  • 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