May 3, 2019

Duration: 2h 42m 14s

Mixing scenes from past and present, My Father's Land (Ataatama Nunanga) looks at the meanings between Inuit history and modern mining in North Baffin Island; how new media is used to inform and consult Inuit leading up to July 2012 Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) Final Public Hearings on Baffinland's $6 billion Mary River proposal to build the world's largest iron mine on Inuit land between

Duration: 34m 26s

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Duration: 6m 23s

 Filmed by Zacharias Kunuk.

Duration: 1h 30s

In 1991, Igloolik Isuma Productions gathered 13 Igloolik elders for a week of discussion, to choose and then record 24 traditional ajaja songs considered most important to preserve for the future: where did the songs come from, how where they made and how have they been passed down generation to generation?

Duration: 1h 30s

In the 1980’s and 90’s, as aging elders and Third Generation children become modern adults, southern radio and television introduced in 1982 increase the impact of foreign language and culture, and quickly alter the community dynamics of the settlement.

Duration: 1h 30s

Focusing on the emerging youth of today, the ‘fourth’ generation never lived on the land, have little or no traditional knowledge, speak both Inuktitut and English poorly and have few positive models or prospects in either the traditional life of their ancestors or the world of the whites. Youth can be lost, unemployed, angry, with nothing to do.

Duration: 48m 16s

In 1953, Inuit families were forcibly relocated to the uninhabited and inhospitable high arctic, 1500 kilometres north of their traditional homeland of Nunavik, in northern Québec, to extend Canadian claims of sovereignty to Ellesmere Island. Inuit endured families torn apart and many years of hardship.

Duration: 54m 7s

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Duration: 20m 7s

Duration: 53m 39s

The Last Resort. 53 minutes & 53 seconds, Carmelo Musca and Tania Ferrier, documenting the making of ‘The Quod Project’.

Duration: 43m 10s

The title means ‘that which gives life’. Wanggangarra is a film about family histories, relationship & respect amongst the Yindjibarndi and Ngarluma people of the west Pilbara, Western Australia.

Duration: 1h 3m 23s

Siila Watt-Cloutier delivers her keynote at Health Canada's - First Nation and Inuit Health Branch - Pan-Arctic Results Workshop, held in Ottawa February 7-10, 2011.

This speech navigates the global and local level decision-making and impacts of climate change, weaving together human rights, ecological and governance issues, all within Siila's unique indigenous women's perspective.

Duration: 54m 7s

This feature documentary takes viewers “on the land” with elders and hunters to explore the social and ecological impacts of a warming Arctic.  Directed by Zacharias Kunuk and reseacher/filmmaker Dr Ian Mauro.  

 

 

 

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