John Hodgins

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I have been the Technical Director and technology project manager for IsumaTV since our launch in 2008. I've managed the growth of the site from a simple video blog to an interactive social networking and OTT VOD platform, as well as acting as lead developer for a variety of Isuma's digital projects. I've travelled extensively in the Canadian Arctic managing installation of IsumaTV MediaPlayers in Igloolik, Pangnirtuq and Iqaluit. More recently I've developed the technology behind Isuma's increasing (and exciting!) live video presence.See more

Activity

  • Gjoa Haven | Uqsuqtuuq | ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᖅ

    uploaded by: GjoaHaven

    Gjoa Haven is a Low Bandwidth High Cost internet community. Internet service is 150 times behind southern Canada in cost-per-MB. To overcome this handicap NITV installs local server Mediaplayers to deliver high speed media to slow speed users, and broadcasts our internet films and videos to home TV.

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 07-03-2016

  • Old Massett

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    The Haida community page is dedicated to telling stories from the Haida perspective. Working in the communities of Skidegate and Old Massett, this page was possible through the Haida Script Development Project, a collaboration between the Council of the Haida Nation, the UBC School of Regional and Community Planning, and NITV (Nunavut Independent Television Network).

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 08-09-2016

  • Carol Kunnuk

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Carol Kunnuk is a filmmaker and has worked in independent television and film production since 1994 as a writer, camera operator, production supervisor, assistant director, actor and editor. Her personal work includes the 2010 documentary film The Queen of the Quest.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 10-05-2020

  • George Kakayuk

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Sugluk were a Canadian rock band, based in northern Quebec. Led by singer George Kakayuk and guitarist Tayara Papigatuk, the group toured extensively through the 1970s and 1980s, and recorded two singles with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Northern Service in 1975.[1][2] The band wrote songs in both English and Inuktitut.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 10-05-2020

  • Kelly Fraser

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Originally from Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, Kelly performed countless concerts across Canada in English and Inuktitut, especially the Arctic (Nunavut and Nunavik), where she was extremely well-known. Seamlessly blending the two languages with her powerful, insightful, and politically-relevant lyrics, her goal was to make the music speak to both Inuit and Qallunaat (“southerners”).

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 10-05-2020

  • Angela Amarualik

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Angela Amarualik was born and raised in Igloolik, Like many small communities in Canada’s Arctic, Igloolik had many social problems. Angela worked hard to retain good attitude, improve circumstances, and be a role model for the younger kids in her town.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 10-05-2020

  • Beatrice Deer

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Beatrice Deer, singer-songwriter, winner of the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards and Canadian Folk Music Awards, is from Nunavik. Half Inuit and half Mohawk, Deer left the small Quebec town of Quaqtaq in 2007. She has five albums to her credit. It is a body of work in which she uniquely mixes traditional Inuit throat singing with contemporary indie rock.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 10-05-2020

  • Zacharias Kunuk

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Born in 1957 in a sod house on Baffin Island, Zacharias Kunuk was a whalebone carver in 1981 when he sold three sculptures in Montreal to buy a home video camera and 27” TV to bring back to Igloolik, a settlement of 500 Inuit who twice had voted to refuse outside television.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 10-05-2020

  • Aleksei Vakhrushev

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Upon graduating from the Director’s Department of the Russian State Film School (VGIK) in 1996, he launched his career with a documentary entitled The Time When Dreams Melt. He continued to film his best work in his native land, focusing on the lives of the local people.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 10-05-2020

  • Pakak Innuksuk

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Pakak Innuksuk is a reknowned drum dancer from Igloolik, Nunavut, who performs and teaches all over the Arctic. He is also an actor and associate movie director, known for Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001), The Journey of Knud Rasmussen (2006) and Maïna (2013).

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 10-05-2020

  • Nancy Saunders

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Niap (Nancy Saunders) is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist whose work has been collected by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Avataq Cultural Institute among others. Based in Montreal, QC, the artist divides her time between the city and her home community of Kuujjuaq, Nunavik—a place that continues to deeply influence her work.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 15-04-2020

  • About

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Tunnganarniq is an Inuktitut word meaning welcoming and inclusive. Tunnganarniq Live is a welcoming, inclusive and collaborative live TV platform, to give people access and engagement with Inuit art by Inuit artists sharing live TV content.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 15-04-2020

  • 10m 10s

    Artcirq Short Doc

    uploaded by: Artcirq

    channel: Artcirq

    A short documentary by Solomon Uyarasuk about youth who are training to put on a show in Igloolik.

    Produced by Guillaume Saladin.  An Artcirq Produciton. 2007. Visit our website www.artcirq.org

     

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 28-07-2007

  • 58m 16s

    Nunaqpa (Going Inland)

    uploaded by: Norman Cohn

    channel: MICH Living Archives

    Nunaqpa is the second Isuma recreated fiction, filmed with actors in 1990 recreating a Summer caribou hunt in the 1930's. For Igloolik Inuit, it is the time of Nunaqpa, 'going inland,' the long walk in search of summer-fat caribou to catch enough meat for the hard winter ahead. Two families leave for the hunt, while the old couple and grandmother wait by the shore for their return.

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 29-10-2006

  • 49m 24s

    Inuit Piqutingit (What Belongs to Inuit)

    uploaded by: Norman Cohn

    channel: Inuit Culture Education

    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.

    Inuit Piqutingit (What Belongs to Inuit), Igloolik Isuma Productions, Kivalliq Inuit Association 2009, Producers Bernadette Dean, Katarina Soukup, Zacharias Kunuk. English and Inuktut w/Eng s-t.

     

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 10-05-2006

  • 8m 48s

    407

    uploaded by: Artcirq

    channel: Artcirq

    407, Artcirq, Igloolik Isuma, NITV productions 2006, Producer Guillaume Saladin, Director Bruce Haulli. Inuktut w/English s-t.

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 21-02-2006

  • 47m 5s

    Qallunajatut (Urban Inuk)

    uploaded by: Norman Cohn

    channel: MICH Living Archives

    Qallunajatut (Urban Inuk) follows the lives of three Inuit in Montreal over the course of one hot and humid summer.Only two generations ago Inuit lived in small, nomadic hunting camps scattered across the vast Arctic landscape.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 12-10-2005

  • Our Story

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: DIAMA 2008-2009

    Among the many collections from all across Canada that are part of the Inuit and Aboriginal media archive, the following organizations are some of the providers of the irreplaceable digitized content:

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 02-09-2001

  • 28m 53s

    Nunavut (Our Land) Episode 11: Tuktuliaq (Caribou Hunt)

    uploaded by: Norman Cohn

    channel: Transmediale

    Igloolik, Fall 1945. Even here, news of the terrible world war raging outside makes people frightened and uneasy. They talk of the danger of the unknown future, of shamanistic intervention to protect their culture. The weather turns colder. With the north wind blowing, Inuaraq builds his sod house, while Qulitalik cuts the ice blocks for the porch.

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 01-12-1995

  • 58m 23s

    Qaggiq (Gathering Place)

    uploaded by: Norman Cohn

    channel: MICH Living Archives

    First Isuma recreated fiction. A late-winter Inuit camp in the 1930's. Four families build a qaggiq, a large communal igloo, to celebrate the coming of spring with games, singing and drum dancing. A young man seeks a wife. The girl's father says no, but her mother says yes...

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 30-09-1988