Isuma.tv Offers Online Platform for Inuit and Indigenous Storytellers

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Isuma.tv is a fantastic multimedia website for Inuit and Indigenous media culture, focusing on independent media content.

Launched in 2008, Isuma.tv presents cultural, digital media content from Inuit and Indigenous people. This platform encourages Indigenous people to share their stories through digital multimedia. Created by the producers of movie Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, Igloolik Isuma Productions, this webspace is open for people to share their past, present and futures through video, photos and audio.

By creating a channel on Isuma.tv you can share and network with other Indigenous people making digital media and artistry. There are currently over 2600 videos in 46 different Indigenous languages.

The site is available in either high or low bandwidth choices for those in more rural communities.

Igloolik Isuma Productions is winding down it's operations as a film company, but Norman Cohn, one of the Isuma directors, assures that the Isuma.tv initiative will not be affected.

To learn more, or to watch and upload your own films, go to Isuma.tv.

RPM Podcast #003: "North Coast"

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In our third episode, we look up, way up, to the North Coast of Turtle Island.

Ostwelve talks with Dene/Inuvialuit country artist Leanne GooseDene singer-songwriter Leela GildayInuk hip-hop artist M.O. and Tlicho writer Richard Van Camp.

We find out what makes the north coast - and its influence on these artists - unique. We also learn how to pass the hours when the sun never rises and more behind the saying "when an elder dies a library closes".

You'll also hear Inuit throatsinging by Karen Panigoniak and Maria Illungiayok from Arviat, Nunavut.

This is just a slice - a super tasty, action-packed slice - of the diverse music and culture of the North Coast. Also check out RPM's North Coast YouTube Playlist for more.

Download: RPM Podcast #003 - "North Coast" 

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The RPM podcast is produced & engineered by the amazing Paolo Pietropaolo.

Photo Illustration: Thanks to the talented Joi Arcand for the depiction of the dancing northern lights.