The Stage 32 Videos: Documentary

A prominent form of art within the community of Tuktoyaktuk, carving has long been a traditional and beloved practice. Although carving began as a way to make tools, with long winters and no stone walls, carving became the medium through which carvers could express themselves and life surrounding them. While the techniques and teachings were passed down by their elders, the carvers of today continue to be inspired by those who came before them.

The phrase "Tough and Competent" was created by NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz and became the rallying cry of NASA and the Mission Control crew after the Apollo 1 disaster that killed NASA astronauts Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee on January 27, 1967. Gene Kranz served as NASA Flight Director until his retirement in1994 . He is the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. | http://assignmentuniverse.com/

Non-scientific anthropological research that follows the trail of a missing father through Siberia up to the Arctic turns into an all-transforming personal experience of grief, forgiveness, and the transcendence of love.

Drum dancing has been part of Inuvialuit musical life for centuries. Accompanied by a rhythmic beat of drums, singers and dancers recount legends, stories and traditions.

Meet Joe Buffalo Child, also known around the world as Joe "The Aurora Hunter". Owner of North Star Adventures, a 100% Indigenous owned and operated, Yellowknife based company. In the span of five minutes as a guest of Joe's, you will get to know the storyteller, the practical joker, the astute businessman, and more than anything else, the lover of the Aurora.

Documentary I made in two weeks when Corona Virus first shut everything down.

Pinguqsaaryuit, the Inuvialuktun word for pingos, are an iconic landmark that emerge from the relatively flat land of the Canadian Western Arctic. For millennia, pingos have played an important part of Inuvialuit culture, serving as landmarks for the Inuvialuit who have lived and travelled the Western Arctic, along with providing a place to camp, collect berries and get out on the land. As such an important and everlasting feature of Tuk, Pingos continue to inspire stories, traditions and of course, art. Here’s the stories inspired by these iconic landmarks.

Inspired by and sourced from the land, art and storytelling go hand in hand. Just as life stories are weaved into garments, stories are also told through visual art forms. Artists within the community express themselves in both the traditional and contemporary, but are always telling relevant stories of their culture, community, and way of life. Here are their stories through art.

actor #celebrity Heals of Stella is a documentary that captures the story of Stella Nante a renowned actress and film director in Uganda. She tells us her experience facing sexual harassment in the start of her carrier.

Documentary short of the impact of the pandemic on the society with this one focusing on the plight of Sidon Children's Home in Zimmerman, Nairobi Kenya.

Meet Leela Gilday, a Dene-Canadian singer/songwriter, born and raised in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. She has released five solo albums since 2002, two of which have won the Juno Award for Indigenous Music Album of the Year. Leela Gilday has a voice that comes straight from the heart. Confessing her stories to her audiences with a gutsy voice and open stage presence, Gilday weaves her experiences as a northerner, a member of the Dene nation, and a traveler into a beautiful world that transports the listener. If you’re from the North, Leela’s music is home. If you’ve never been, it will take you there. Born and raised in the Northwest Territories, she writes about the people and the land that created her. The power in her voice conveys the depth of her feelings of love and life in a rugged environment and vibrant culture, as if it comes straight from that earth. Leela’s family is from Délįne on the shore of Great Bear Lake and her rich vocals dance across the rhythmic beats of traditional Dene drumming as smoothly as a bass line onstage the largest venues in the country. And she has played them all. Leela has toured festivals and concert halls with her four-piece band through every province and territory in Canada. She has played in the United States, Greenland, Australia, New Zealand and several countries in Europe. Her live shows are where she connects with fans who have followed her on a 20-year career and where new fans are born. She reaches into their hearts and feels the energy of every person in front of her as she guides them on a journey through song and experience. She believes music has an inexplicable effect on people. It is a place where she can share light and dark and the most vulnerable moments, with a clarity and genuine purpose that reassures her listeners through every word. She is a storyteller, and through this, reflects the world onto itself. Leela’s fifth album "North Star Calling" was released in fall of 2019 and has since been awarded the Indigenous Artist of the Year JUNO Award 2021. It is more raw, more intimate and more Leela than anything you’ve heard from her before. “Leela Gilday’s voice comes straight from the heart. It’s the voice of a winner; the song of a warrior. That’s the call of Leela Gilday.” - David Newland, Roots Music Canada