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May 2010
 Madeline Ivalu (Inuit) is an actor, writer, director, musician and storyteller. She is one of the founders (with Marie-Helene Cousineau, Mary Kunuk and others) of Arnait Video Productions, the first women’s collective independent production company in the Arctic. Arnait, started in Igloolik in 1991 as a project of Tarriaksuk Video Centre and an initiative of Igloolik Isuma Productions, produces works featuring women’s stories and reflecting traditional and contemporary Inuit styles of narration. In 2008 Arnait released its first feature film, Before Tomorrow, co-directed by Ivalu and Cousineau, and produced by Igloolik Isuma as the third of a ground-breaking cinema trilogy. In the film Ivalu also plays the lead role of the spirited and loving grandmother Ninnioq. In 2010 Before Tomorrow was nominated for nine Canadian Genie Awards, including for Best Motion Picture and, for Ivalu, Best Lead Actress.
Ivalu represents women of Igloolik in Paukktutit, the Pan-Canadian Inuit Women’s Organization. She was part of the Pan-Arctic Women Artists Workshop and is president of Naluat, a women's sewing collective in Igloolik.
Screened by NMAI
Image credits:
Madeline Piujuq Ivalu on the set of Before Tomorrow |
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