IsumaTV Nunavut Independent Inuit Broadcasting

Duration: 5m 55s

Channel 51 Igloolik (Trailer): Celebrating 30 Years of Inuit Video Art (6 mins), NITV, Isuma, Arnait Video, Artcirq 2016. Inuktut w/English s-t.

Trailer of 30 years of video productions from Igloolik filmmakers since 1980s, from NITV Igloolik Community TV Channel 51.

Duration: 17m 39s

IBC: Pituqait: Peter Irniq (17 mins) Inuit Broadcasting Corporation 2019, Interviewer Henry Naudlaq. Inuktitut no subtitles.

Peter Irniq talks with Henry Naudlaq about growing up on the land and his time as an MLA with the NWT and Nunavut governments.

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: 25m 52s

IBC Baker Lake 30, Funny Stories, Inuit Broadcasting Corporation Baker Lake, Host William Noah. Inuktut no subtitles.

Funny Stories from Baker Lake, Segment 1: Thomas Suvaaraq and Leo Qijuarjuk talk about funny stories.

Duration: 28m 52s

In Qimuksik (Dog Team) one family travels in the immense and beautiful arctic during spring. Inuaraq teaches his young son how to survive in the old way: driving the dogs, building the igloo, catching seals on the open water, running down caribou to feed the family.    

Duration: 27m 10s

Piujuk and Angutautuq, Arnait Video Productions 1994, Producers Madeline Ivalu, Susan Avingaq, Mary Kunuk and Marie-helene Cousineau. Inuktut w/English s-t. 

Duration: 28m 50s

Inuaraq's family finally arrives at Avaja to a warm welcome. Yet, many changes have taken place. On the hill above the tents, they now find a wooden church and a priest. Sharing the fresh caribou feast, telling stories, Inuit are interrupted by the bell ringing. Inside the church the sermon is clear: Paul 4:22, 'Turn away from your old way of life.'

Duration: 51m 45s

ARNAIT: Inuit Midwives, Interview with Hannah Uyarak (52 mins), Arnait Video Productions 1991. At Igloolik Point, Interview by Madeline Ivalu, Camera Marie-helene Cousineau. Inuktut no subtitles.

Duration: 37m 36s

Ataguttaluk - A Life to Live For (37 mins), NITV and Kingulliit Productions 2019, Director Carol Kunnuk. Inuktut w/English s-t.

Mixing historical photos, contemporary footage, and recreated scenes, this experimental documentary tells the story of a woman who survived a terrible starvation to become one of the most important residents of Igloolik.

Duration: 28m 54s

Amitturmiut Originals 4754, Halloween costume contest 1989.

Duration: 12m 5s

KITIKMEOT TV: Kitikmeot Heritage: Elders Examine Tools and Harpoons (12 mins), Kitikmeot Heritage Society 2012. Inuktut and English.

The Elders of the Kitikmeot examine and comment on photographs of artifacts contained in the British Museum collection.

Duration: 28m 52s

Takuginai Early Shows , S 10 Ep 7, Inuit Broadcasting Corporation 1995. Inuktut no subtitles.

Duration: 15m 14s

Takuginai 519, ᓛᓚ ᖃᓂᒪᒻᒪᑦ ᐊᖏᕐᕋᖅᓯᒪᒋᐊᖃᕋᒥ ᑖᒧᓯᐅᑉ ᓇᔪᖅᓯᖅᐹ. Lala's Sick Day, Inuit Broadcasting Corporation 2019. Inuktut no subtitles.

Lala is sick with a cold so Thomasie stays home to look after her.

Duration: 22m 20s

ᑐᖖᒐᓱᒋᑦ ᐊᓈᓇᐅᑉ ᑐᐱᖕᒐᓄᑦ! ᐅᓪᓗᒥ, ᐅᖃᖅᑎ ᐃᑦᑐᐊᖕᒐ ᐃᓚᖕᒋᓪᓗ ᑎᑭᑦᑐᑦ ᑐᐱᖕᒐᓄᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᓂᐊᖅᑐᑦ ᐱᒻᒪᕆᐅᓂᖕᒐᓂ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐃᓕᖅᑯᓯᖕᒋᓐᓂᒃ, ᐃᖃᓗᒐᓱᐊᕐᓂᖅ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᕐᓂᐊᖅᑐᒍᑦ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᒐᕐᒥ ᐃᖃᓪᓕᐊᖃᑎᒋᓪᓗᒍ

Welcome to Anaana’s Tent! Today, host Rita Claire arrives at her family’s tent and learns how important fishing is in Inuit culture. Celina Kalluk stops by to sing a song, and we read the book Fishing with Grandma.
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Duration: 2m 5s

Qaujimaviit? is a series of short videos for learning or improving Inuktut language skills with Elder Peter Irniq.

ISUMA: Qaujimaviit? Episode 1, Tiituriit? (2 mins), Igloolik Isuma Productions 2009, Host Peter Irniq. Inuktut no subtitles.

Duration: 1m 20s

Qaujimaviit? is a series of short videos for learning or improving Inuktut language skills with Elder Peter Irniq.  Today's episode is about food.

ISUMA: Qaujimaviit? Episode 9, Food (2 mins) Igloolik Isuma Productions 2009, Host Peter Irniq. Inuktut and English.

Duration: 17m 3s

IBC Qaujisaut, Cooking with Janet, Baker Lake Adult Education Producer: Baker Lake – Inuit Broadcasting Corporation 1980, John Tapatai, William Scottie, Host Janet Tagoona. Inuktut no subtitles.

First Inuktut cooking show. Segment 1: Janet Tagoona shows how to cook caribou stew.

Duration: 2m 28s

KITIKMEOT TV: Speaking Inuktitut (3 mins), Taloyoak Community TV 2014.

Netsilik School Students Project. Syllabics.

Duration: 32m 10s

NITV: Traditional children's stories and songs (32 mins), NITV production 2020, Host Lucy Tulugarjuk. Inuktut no subtitles.

Lucy Tulugarjuk shares traditional songs and stories in our Montréal office. 

Duration: 41m 41s

IBC: Inuit Tuttarvingat TV Show - Youth Coping Chapter 3 (42 mins), Inuit Tuttarvingat, National Aboriginal Health Organization NAHO 2009. Inuktitut w/English s-t.

Duration: 12m 51s

NITV: Nunagijavut, NTI President Aluki Kotierk Inuktitut Interview (13 mins), NITV live productions 2020, Host Lucy Tulugarjuk. Inuktut no subtitles.

Duration: 36m 14s

On Baffin Island, two mountains of ore will be cut down at Mary River. Some residents of Igloolik react to this development : they worry that this industrial development will destroy their environment and the marine mammals as well as their culture and hunting life style.

Duration: 36m 32s

Northern Haze: Living the Dream, Artcirq Productions 2011, Director Derek Aqqiaruq. Inuktut w/English s-t.

Rocking the North hard and heavy since 1977, “Northern Haze: Living the Dream” tells the story of the first known Inuit Rock Band to sing in their native tongue.

Duration: 43m 11s

In 1963 families living on the land at Kivitoo were relocated by RCMP to Qikiqtarjuaq, a town 50 km to the south, with the promise they could return, only to return to find their homes bulldozed and belongings destroyed.

Duration: 28m 54s

Ammiturmiut 4716, Working mothers, 1991, originally produced by Inuit Broadcasting Corporation's Igloolik Station, all rights to this series have been returned to Igloolik's Kingulliit Productions. Inuktut.

Duration: 28m 58s

IBC: Qaujisaut (To See, To Find Out) (29 mins), Inuit Broadcasting Corporation 1996, Inuktut no subtitles.

Duration: 34m 25s

ARTCIRQ: Paniaq advising young artists (34 mins), Artcirq Productions 2008. Inuktut no subtitles.

Elder Herve Paniaq advising young artists at the old Igloolik swimming pool in 2008 - telling them about acting, animal sounds, and storytelling.

Duration: 15m 3s

Takuginai 5, ᐱ ᐳ ᐸ - Pi Pu Pa, Inuit Broadcasting Corporation 2019. Inuktut no subtitles.

ᑖᒧᓯᒃᑯ ᓛᓚᒃᑯᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑑᒃ ᓱᓇᕈᓘᔭᕐᓂ ᐱᒋᐊᖓᕐᓂᓕᓐᓂᒃ ᐱ ᐳ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐸ-ᒥᒃ. Thomasie and Lala learn about different things that start with letters ᐱ ᐳ and ᐸ.

Duration: 22m 20s

ᐃᑦᑐᐊᖕᒐ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᕿᒻᒥᖅ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᓂᐊᖅᑑᒃ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᒥ ᐱᕈᖅᑐᑦ ᒥᒃᓵᓄᑦ. ᒦᑲ ᐊᕐᓇᒃᑲᖅ ᐃᖖᒋᕐᓂᐊᖅᑐᖅ ᐃᖖᒋᒐᕐᒥᒃ ᑕᕐᕋᓕᑭᑖᑯᓗᒃ, ᓯᐳᐊᕋ ᑲᓪᓗᒃ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑎᑦᑎᓂᐊᖅᑐᖅ ᐃᑯᒻᒪᒃᓴᐃᓂᕐᒥᒃ ᖁᓪᓕᕐᒥᒃ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᕐᓂᐊᖅᑐᒍ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᒐᕐᒥᒃ ᓴᐃᓚ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐱᐊᑎ.

Rita Claire and Qimmiq learn all about Arctic plants. Meeka Arnakaq sings the Butterfly song, Zipporah Kalluk teaches how to light a qulliq (an Inuit stone lamp), and we read the book Saila and Betty.

Duration: 33m 54s

As the first woman to compete in and win the “Nunavut Quest” dog team race, Denise Malliki is a great source of inspiration for many young Inuit women and men as well as a compelling ambassador for our Inuit culture and traditions.

Queen Of The Quest (34 mins), Arnait Video Productions, NITV 2010, Director Carol Kunnuk.

Duration: 1h 30m 58s

IBC: Nunavut Gala April 1, 1999, Part 1 (90 mins), Inuit Broadcasting Corporation, Iqaluit 1999. Inuktut and English.

Duration: 56m 56s

ᓴᖃᓕᐊᓯ ᑯᓄᒃ ᖃᐃᖁᓯᒪᔭᖏᓪᓗ ᑲᖏᕐᑐᒑᐱᒃᒥᑦ, ᒥᑦᑎᒪᑕᓕᖕᒥᑦ, ᐃᒃᐱᐊᕐᔪᖕᒥᑦ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐃᒡᓗᓕᖕᒥᑦ ᐅᓂᒃᑳᑲᑕᒃᑐᑦ ᕿᑭᕐᑖᓘᑉ ᒥᒃᓴᓄᑦ, ᖃᓄᕐᓗ ᐃᓅᓯᖃᓚᐅᕐᒪᖔᑕ ᓂᕐᔪᑎᓂᒃᓗ ᑕᑯᕙᓚᐅᕐᑕᖏᓐᓂᒃ ᐊᖑᓇᓱᒃᐸᓚᐅᕐᑕᖏᓐᓂᒃᓗ. ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖃᕐᑐᑦ ᐱᓂᐊᕐᓂᐅᕙᓚᐅᕐᑐᓂᒃ ᕿᑭᕐᑖᓗᒃᒥ ᐅᔭᕋᖕᓂᐊᕐᕕᒃ ᐱᒋᐊᓚᐅᖏᑎᓪᓗᒍ.

Duration: 4m 42s

Arnait Video Presents: Aqtuqsi (The Nightmare), Arnait Video Productions 1996, Director Mary Kunuk. Inuktut no subtitles.

Duration: 58m 16s

Nunaqpa is the second Isuma recreated fiction, filmed with actors in 1990 recreating a Summer caribou hunt in the 1930's. For Igloolik Inuit, it is the time of Nunaqpa, 'going inland,' the long walk in search of summer-fat caribou to catch enough meat for the hard winter ahead. Two families leave for the hunt, while the old couple and grandmother wait by the shore for their return.

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: 28m 51s

IBC: Kippinguijautiit (Things to Pass Time By), Rasmus Lyberth Concert (29 mins), Inuit broadcasting Corporation 1999, Host Nanasie Naudla. Inuktut no subtitles.

Sprecial Segment: Rasmus Lyberth concert singing at the Inuit Circumpolar Conference in Greenland 1999.

Duration: 46m 34s

Zacharias Kunuk and Neil Diamond team up to research the events and historical impacts of an 18th century conflict between Inuit and Cree in Northern Québec, and to bring people together finally in 2013.

Inuit Cree Reconciliation, Kingulliit Productions, NITV 2013, Directors Zacharias Kunuk and Neil Diamond. Inuktut, Cree, English w/English s-t.

Duration: 1h 32m 23s

Circa 1840. Two isolated families meet after many years. It is summer; a happy time to celebrate their reunion. Despite the joyful mood, Ningiuq, an old woman of strength and wisdom, cannot stop worrying. Is it the illness of her best friend, Kutuguk, who is preparing to die? Or is it the strange foreign object that Maniq, her favourite grandson, found on the beach?

Duration: 8m 48s

407, Artcirq, Igloolik Isuma, NITV productions 2006, Producer Guillaume Saladin, Director Bruce Haulli. Inuktut w/English s-t.

Duration: 34m 48s

ARVIAT TV: ᐊᒑᖅᑐᖅ Agaaqtoq (34 mins), Arviat Community TV, Alianait Festival 2020. Inuktut no subtitles.

ᐊᒑᖅᑐᖅ Agaaqtoq performs a concert in 'a little iglu' near Arviat.

Duration: 3h 18m 56s

NITV: NIRB Baffinland Hearings, Iqaluit Day 5 (PM) November 6, 2019, Nunavut Impact Review Board environmental assessment of Baffinland Iron Mine's Mary River Phase 2 proposal (live webcast 3 hours), NITV, Kingulliit Productions 2019. Inuktut and English, simultaneous translation. 

Duration: 1h 20m 51s

ISUMA: Testimony, Lazarie Otak (80 mins), Igloolik Isuma Productions, NITV 2007, Interviewer Peter Irniq, Camera Zacharias Kunuk. Inuktut w/ English transcript.

Testimonies by Residential School Survivors, life histories and school experiences. Lazarie Otak, Igloolik.

Duration: 1h 34m 28s

ISUMA: Maliglutit (Searchers) (100 mins), Kingulliit Productions, NITV 2016, Director Zacharias Kunuk, Natar Ungalaaq. Inuktut w/English s-t.

Duration: 1h 15m 53s

NITV: Silakut Live From the Floe Edge Episode 9, Celebration of Music, Northern Haze (75 mins), NITV Live and Kingulliit Productions 2019, Director Zacharias Kunuk, Hosts Paul Quassa and Lucy Tulugarjuk. Inuktut and English.

Duration: 5m 29s

ᖃᓄᐃᒪᑦ ᐊᕿᒌᑦ ᐃᔨᖏᑦ ᐊᐅᐸᓗᒪᖓᑕ, ᐳᕕᐊᖃᒪᖓᑕᓗ ᓂᕿᖃᕕᖏᓂᒃ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓂᐅᖏᑦ ᓴᐅᓂᖃᒪᖔᑕ.

Why ptarmigan have red eyes, a little pouch to store their food, and legs like drumsticks.