Perspectives

Nancy Karatek-Lindell (Liberal candidate from Nunavut for many years) tells Denise Malliki, dog master and Queen of the Quest, how she is proud of her, a young woman with great leadership skills!

Catherine Martin invites Northern women to join the program Indigenous Women in Community Leadership offered at the Coady Institute. www.iwomenlead.ca

Katharine Irngaut, talks about Sisters in Spirit, an intitiative of the Native Women's Association of Canada. One of their research and priority is about the missing and murdered Aboriginal women of Canada. She invites you to be part of the Vigil on October 4th. www.nwac.ca

Elisapee Sheutiapik, Mayor of Iqaluit talks about the importance of the Leadership Summit for women. In English.

Elisapee Sheutiapik talks about the importance of the Leadership Summit. In Inuktitut

Johanna Awa on leadership and women. In English

Johanna Awa talks about leadership and women. In Inuktitut.

Johanna Awa is a reporter from CBC radio AND the voice that everyone in Nunavut knows very well. She is the facilitator of the day and introduces the program of the 15th.

Meeka Kilabuk, fashion designer, presents the exibition at the Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum.

Susan Avingaq from Igloolik directed this video about traditional clothing styles from Igloolik.

Produced with the support of the Canada Arts Council.

Women across Nunavut to express their needs and their opinions via a simple and easy to use mobile survey kit and web-based application. 

Arnait Video Presents: Tusaviit, Arnait Video Productions 2008, Inuktut and English.

A documentary about a group of elders in Igloolik, who decide to build an umiaq, a boat covered with seal skins

Arnait Video Presents: Umiaq, Arnait Video Productions 2007, filmmakers Madeline Ivalu, Carol Kunnuk.

In Inuktitut with Eng s-t. 

info@arnaitvideo.ca.

Three partners of Igloolik Isuma Productions interview themselves about the meaning of their work together. Shot sometime in the early 1990's, date unknown.

Why We Do This? Zach Kunuk, Qulitalik, Norman Cohn, 42:09, Inuktitut and English. Early 1990s.

Rooted in tradition, adoption is a reality that all Inuit families have experienced. In Inuit culture, adopting a child from a relative, friend or acquaintance is a common practice. Marie-Hélène Cousineau, the adoptive mother of Alexandre Apak, lived in Igloolik, a small island southwest of Baffin Island in the Arctic, for many years.

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

This second Isuma-Artcirq co-production by Igloolik youth is a story about a young Inuk who lost his love. Using alcohol to put reality and the past behind, the past keeps hunting him. When he loses control and beats up a man on the street he is sentenced to two months in an outpost camp, where a hunter is waiting for him.