{"id":316,"date":"2008-01-16T13:43:16","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T13:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:40","slug":"check-out-isuma-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Check out Isuma.tv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the news today:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"color: #000066;\">Inuit filmmaker Zach Kunuk and his co-producer Norman Cohn grabbed worldwide attention for their film &#8220;Atanarjuat&#8221; when it won a medal at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, but neither expected the accolades and attention to trickle down to others telling aboriginal stories.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"color: #000066;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"color: #000066;\">That&#8217;s why the two have started a new service allowing such filmmakers from around the world to share and show their work on a website that could become the YouTube of aboriginal cinema.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"color: #000066;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"color: #000066;\">&#8220;(We) are an example of how you can actually succeed and find an audience in this world, but we&#8217;re the only ones who have been able to do that,&#8221; said Cohn.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"color: #000066;\">The duo&#8217;s new website, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isuma.tv\">Isuma.tv<\/a>, has already gathered 100 films and videos from four countries in the four weeks since it began.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/article.jsp?content=e011634A\">Macleans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This new site is extraordinary and well worth checking out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the news today: Inuit filmmaker Zach Kunuk and his co-producer Norman Cohn grabbed worldwide attention for their film &#8220;Atanarjuat&#8221; when it won a medal at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, but neither expected the accolades and attention to trickle down to others telling aboriginal stories.That&#8217;s why the two have started a new service allowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada-eh","category-canadian-culture","category-first-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}