Canada

Melissa Pash

Year of Production: 2009

Country: Canada

Canada slammed during UN human rights review: the state of aboriginal peoples ...

 

Indigenous women demand respect in Ottawa

"AND THEN LET'S GO FOR THAT JUSTICE"

Indigenous women demand respect in Ottawa (by Maya Rolbin-Ghanie)

In honour of missing and murdered indigenous women, the Walk4Justice began in Vancouver on June 21, Aboriginal Day, and ended with a rally of about 250 on Parliament Hill on September 15.

IsumaTV in the Media

1. Jan 11, 2008. Nunatsiaq News: “Isuma’s latest: free internet video” by Jim Bell.

Marnie Parrell, Métis filmmaker

Listen to Métis artist, filmmaker and writer, Marnie Parrell, as she explains her work and the making of 'Women in Canada', and 'Ahoy! Métis!'

INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR CANADA REJECTS 'INUIT POINT OF VIEW'

The clock is ticking. Eight weeks and waiting, Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk still hopes to learn why International Polar Year Canada rejected his internet project, From an Inuit Point of View: Arctic Climate Change from the Inuit Side.

Speaking from the Heart of Collective Memories - by Catherine Martin

The filmmakers of The Journals of Knud Rasmussen write, 'This film asks questions among others, about vanished peoples, colonization, cultural amnesia, effaced memory, Christianization and the complete erasure of a religion - especially in the absence of a literary tradition in most Aboriginal oral cultures.'

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt - by Norman Cohn

We have been asked: Who is the intended audience for The Journals of Knud Rasmussen?

Kikkik E1-472

During the 1950's famine in the Canadian Arctic, Kikkik, an Inuk woman killed a man in self defense and them found herself in the position of having to leave 2 of her 5 children on the tundra. She was tried for murder and criminal negligence and subsequently acquitted. Written by Elisapee Karetak, one of Kikkik's daughters.

Filmmaker: Martin Kreelak

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