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

  • 11m 51s

    Daniel's Class, Grade 11

    uploaded by: nbrusch

    channel: DIAMA

    The Social Studies class at 11th grade learned about Residential Schools and watch one of the testimonies at the Inuit Culture Education area. Students came up with some questions about the subject and were given each one an ipod so that they could interview people around the school.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 31-03-2010

  • 19m 14s

    Sean's Class, Grade 11

    uploaded by: nbrusch

    channel: DIAMA

    At the High School, 11th grade teacher gave a class on climate change and screened 'Ukiutatuq Takuguk!' a video from the 'Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change' project within the Inuit Culture and Education area. The video was made for the United Nations COP-15 and was presented in Copenhagen at Denmark's National Gallery.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 30-03-2010

  • 18m 35s

    Dean's Class, Grade 6

    uploaded by: nbrusch

    channel: DIAMA

    At the elementary school, sixth grade students watch Maana video (a video about climate change made by the Inuit circus collective Artcirq) from the Inuit Culture Education site and learned about climate change situation in the Arctic. After watching the film the teacher developed some activities and gave each one of the students an ipod.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 30-03-2010

  • 7m 18s

    Introducing IsumaTV to teachers

    uploaded by: nbrusch

    channel: DIAMA

    An introduction to the DIAMA/IsumaTV and the Inuit Culture Education was made to the principal and teachers of Ataguttaaluk Elementary School and High School in Igloolik. Two classes at the Elementary school and two classes of the High School had the chance to use the Inuit Culture Education website.

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 30-03-2010

  • 12m 57s

    Jeena's Class, Grade 2

    uploaded by: nbrusch

    channel: DIAMA

    Second grade students watch the first part of Before Tomorrow film (made by the Inuit Women collective Arnait). In Nunavut, second grade class is given in Inuktitut so teacher used the film as a way to teach students Inuktitut vocabulary of traditional objects, transportation, and traditional way of living. Then students made some drawings of what they could remember of the film.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 30-03-2010

  • Sinopsis

    uploaded by: Pablo Fulgueira

    channel: Venado

    Sinopsis

    Venado es un retrato de los jicareros, responsables de cumplir con la mitológica y épica tradición wirrárika (huichola).

    Los marakate (chamanes, cantadores, curanderos) recorren más de tres mil kilómetros de eternos paisajes sostenidos por su compleja espiritualidad y su gran sentido del humor. 

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 16-03-2010

  • Synopsis (English)

    uploaded by: Pablo Fulgueira

    channel: Venado

    Venado is a portrait of the jicareros, the practitioners of the mythological and epic wirrárika tradition. The schamans travel through eternal landscapes supported by their complex spirituality and great sense of humor.  During their feasts, poetics are essential and routinary.

     

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 15-03-2010

  • Texto del Director

    uploaded by: Pablo Fulgueira

    channel: Venado

    "A los marakate los guían el fuego y las plumas; en el canto ellos van a encontrar el camino...... si no hay jicareros para entregar las ofrendas en los lugares sagrados, puede venir la enfermedad, o puede dejar de llover".

    José María Reza, marakame
    de Cohamiata. Julio de 2002

     

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 12-03-2010

  • Credits

    uploaded by: Pablo Fulgueira

    channel: Venado

    Presented by Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Enramada, with the support of Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica and Elizabeth Córdoba MacArthur

    A film by the Centro Ceremonial Tserie'kame de Cohamiata

    Venado (Deer)

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 11-03-2010

  • 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.

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    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.… Uqalimakkanirit

    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.… Uqalimakkanirit

    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.

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    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.… Uqalimakkanirit

    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.

    … Uqalimakkanirit

    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
    … Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 21-04-2009