Nunuvut documentary film-maker Marie-Helene Cousineau to visit UAF

Submitted by Carla Browning
Phone: (907) 474-7778
02/06/03

COUSINEAU PRESENTATIONS

Monday Feb. 10, 7 p.m.
Schaible auditorium in the Bunnell Building Ms. Cousineau will show productions from Aranit Video Production and the Women’s Video Workshop of Igloolik. This is open to the public and free for all.

Wednesday Feb 12, 7 p.m.
109 Butrovich Building
"Media Making and Sustainable Economic Development in Nunavut: The Example of Igloolik"

Cousineau is free to meet with any classes during the week so please let Julie Maclean at (907) 474-7761 know if you would like to her visit a class of yours, or if you would like to meet with her individually. She leaves early on Friday morning, Feb 14.

COUSINEAU BIO
From Montreal, Marie-Helene Cousineau came to Igloolik in 1990. She is the founding Coordinator of Tarriaksuk Video Centre, established in 1991. Cousineau formed the collective Arnait Ikajurtigiit (Women’s Video Workshop), and is its coordinator/trainer as well as an active collaborating producer with Mary Kunuk, Madeline Ivalu and Susan Avingaq. She got her MFA in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa.

As a videomaker and a photographer, Cousineau worked in Igloolik with members of the production team that produced Atanarjuat "The Fast Runner." She was a still photographer during the shooting and wrote many articles about the meaning of this production for Nunavut Inuit. Last summer she was hired as a consultant for the department of Sustainable Development of the Government of Nunavut to develop a proposition for the creation of a Nunavut film and television development corporation.

Sponsored by the UAF Journalism Department, UAF Canadian Studies, and the UAF School of Agriculture and Land Resource Management.