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

  • 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

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    Cedar Root Productions www.cedarrootproductions.com

    Producer's Name: Tamara Bull

    Year of Production: 2008

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    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

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    www.7thgen.org

    Producer's Name: 7th Generation image Makers

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    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

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    uploaded date: 19-02-2008

  • 16m 1s

    Talent Show 2005

    uploaded by: Artcirq

    channel: Artcirq

    Artcirq performance in Igloolik's High School gym. December 2005.

    Year of Production: 2009

    Country: Canada

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    uploaded date: 14-02-2008

  • 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

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    Tamara Bell www.cedarrootproductions.com

    Producer's Name: Tamara Bell

    Year of Production: 2008

    Country: Canada

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    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.… Read more

    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

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    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

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    uploaded date: 13-02-2008

  • 7m 35s

    Life's Stripes

    uploaded by: 7th Generation Image Makers

    channel: 7thGen

    Combining elements of military life with street ball, Gervais creates a meshed reality where life is a proving ground and the only path to success is through grit, self resolve, and a smooth jump shot.

    Filmmaker: Cheyenne Redman Gervais

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    www.7thgen.org

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    uploaded date: 13-02-2008

  • 7m 5s

    Nightmare

    uploaded by: 7th Generation Image Makers

    channel: 7thGen

    They’ve taken our homes, our land, and now they’re after our blood...

    Filmmaker: Michael Crawford

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    ajones@nativechild.org

    Producer's Name: 7th Generation image Makers

    Year of Production: 2007

    Country: Canada

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    uploaded date: 13-02-2008

  • 10m 53s

    Addict

    uploaded by: 7th Generation Image Makers

    channel: 7thGen

    A short film about a young man living in downtown Toronto, and the pressures of his world.

    Filmmaker: Brad Nolan

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    ajones@nativechild.org

    Producer's Name: 7th Generation Image Makers

    Year of Production: 2005

    Distributor Information:

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    uploaded date: 13-02-2008

  • 4m 48s

    Clear Cut

    uploaded by: 7th Generation Image Makers

    channel: 7thGen

    Clear Cut is a deeply personal found-footage reflection on mixed race identity. John Hupfield is Anishnawbe from Wasauksing First Nation on Perry Island. Clear Cut is his first video.

    Filmmaker: John Hupfield

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    z_branigan@hotmail.com

    Producer's Name: 7th Generation image Makers

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    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.

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    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.… Read more

    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.… Read more

    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.

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    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.… Read more

    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.

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    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
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    uploaded date: 21-04-2009