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46-560: Igloolik ( Inuktitut syllabics : ᐃᒡᓗᓕᒃ , Iglulik , Inuktitut pronunciation: [iɣ.lu.ˈlik] ) is an Inuit hamlet in Foxe Basin , Qikiqtaaluk Region in Nunavut , northern Canada. Because its location on Igloolik Island is close to Melville Peninsula , it is often mistakenly thought to be on the peninsula. The name "Igloolik" means "there is a house here". It derives from iglu meaning house or building, and refers to

92-511: A Lockheed CP-140 Aurora to the area but were unable to detect the noise or the source. Igloolik has a polar climate ( ET ) with nine months averaging below 0 °C (32 °F). Winters are long and cold, with October being the snowiest month. Summers range from chilly to sometimes mild, with cold nights. The community has been served by the Qiniq network since 2005. Qiniq is a fixed wireless service to homes and businesses, connecting to

138-456: A Baffinland advisory committee, was concerned that the mine's operation would interfere with the traditional hunts for sea mammals, like walrus . He called on Baffinland to "find an alternate shipping route to the mine, regardless of the cost." Paul Quassa , former mayor of Igloolik, also expressed concern, over the effect of freighters on the ice used by the walrus. He said the region was known for its highly prized aged, fermented walrus meat,

184-610: A Jew married to a non-Jewish woman and a new father. Hurt , his documentary film about Steve Fonyo , was released in 2015. It won the Platform Prize at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival . His film There Is a House Here , premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival , and Coppers premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival . In Vinyl , Zweig seeks not to talk to people who collect vinyl records to discuss music, but rather to discuss what drives someone to collect records in

230-699: A car wash employee who claims to own over one million records and claims to have memorized the track listing of every K-Tel collection he owns, a government employee who refuses to organize his collection because he doesn't want people to come over and a man who threw out his large record collection rather than sell or give it away because he didn't want anyone else to own it. Vinyl was ranked one of Pitchfork's 20 Essential Music Docs in 2013. In this film, Zweig interviews seven ex-convicts about their times in prison and their struggle to maintain lives outside of prison walls. The men talk about insights they have gained about their lives, including how childhood abuse led to

276-664: A change of 17.5 per cent from its 2016 population of 1,744. With a land area of 104.86 km (40.49 sq mi), it had a population density of 19.5/km (50.6/sq mi) in 2021. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interviewed people from the region in April 2008, about their concerns over plans to ship iron ore from the nearby Steensby Inlet on Baffin Island from the Baffinland Iron Mine . Jaypetee Palluq, an Igloolik resident who had been asked to serve on

322-427: A family. I, Curmudgeon is a 2004 film about self-declared curmudgeons, himself included, which received a Silver Hugo at the 2005 Chicago International Film Festival . The film was shot on a camcorder , with Zweig using a mirror to record his own experiences. Lovable is a 2007 film about our preoccupation with finding romantic perfection. In 2009, Zweig moved from autobiographical subject matter to explore

368-545: A life of crime. Film subjects include one man who stabbed fellow inmate Clifford Olson 21 times, before Olson committed his serial killings. Another of the film's subjects was abused as a child while a resident at the Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador . A Hard Name ends with archival television footage of him performing, playing the guitar and singing for other young residents of

414-446: A long and frank email relationship with Inuk heavy-metal rocker Lucie Idlout , Alan finds himself unable to truly understand why Canada’s aboriginal people cannot “get over” the injuries of colonialism. With Lucie as his guide, Alan Zweig goes to Nunavut , a place that admittedly frightens him, in the hope of having his skepticism defeated and gaining some answers to bring back to his “equally ignorant countrymen”. The film premiered at

460-799: A member of Knud Rasmussen ’a Fifth Thule Expedition visited the island. The first permanent presence by southerners in Igloolik came with the establishment of a Roman Catholic Mission in the 1930s. By the end of the decade, the Hudson's Bay Company had also set up a post on the island. Non-indigenous establishments, such as Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) stations, day schools , and clinics , were here before they came to be in surrounding communities. The Igloolik Research Centre focuses on documenting Inuit traditional knowledge and technology , as well as climatology and seismic data research. Anthropologically , Iglulik Inuit are usually considered to be

506-523: A partner while also interviewing a couple of dozen single women of various ages and backgrounds. It turns into a probing and occasionally profound examination of love in the 21st century. Zweig asks the women some tough questions, digging through their denial and getting some insightful, articulate answers. Surveying the history of Jewish comedy from the early days of the Borsht Belt to the present, When Jews Were Funny explores not just ethnicity in

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552-514: A short drama about a filmmaker exploring the city which won the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 1989 Toronto International Film Festival . He also later directed the narrative feature film The Darling Family , before turning to documentary film. In his 2000 film Vinyl , Zweig explores what drives people to become record collectors . Zweig spends a large portion of the film exploring his own life in regard to record collecting, feeling it has prevented him from fulfilling his dreams of

598-602: A valuable export from the region. On November 2, 2016, CBC News reported that residents had detected a "ping" via sonar, describing it as a hum or buzz emanating from the seabead of the Fury and Hecla Strait —near Steensby Inlet where Baffinland has one of its ports. Paul Quassa, Igloolik's representative to the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut , said the hum had been disturbing the sea mammals community members rely on for food. The Royal Canadian Air Force sent

644-456: A way to a better life. In the 30 years since he was a nation’s hero for his cross-country run on a prosthetic leg to raise funds for cancer research, Steve’s life has been a sequence of tragic events. Now in his 50s, Steve admits he needs to remove himself from his circumstances in Surrey, BC, to overcome his addiction and have a fresh start with his girlfriend. Bringing director-subject dynamics to

690-455: Is named qaliujaaqpait ( ᖃᓕᐅᔮᖅᐸᐃᑦ ), and it derives from qaliit , a word describing the markings or the grain in rocks. Titirausiq nutaaq [titiʁauˈsiq nuˈtaːq] meaning "new writing system" is to be seen in contrast to titirausiit nutaunngittut ( ᑎᑎᕋᐅᓰᑦ ᓄᑕᐅᓐᖏᑦᑐᑦ ), the "old syllabics" used before the reforms of 1976. Inuktitut is one variation on Canadian Aboriginal syllabics , and can be digitally encoded using

736-502: Is placed before the CV syllabic, for instance - kk u-, - nnu - are rendered ᒃ ᑯ and ᓐ ᓄ respectively. The Makivik Corporation expanded the official version of the script to restore the ai-pai-tai column. The common diphthong ai has generally been represented by combining the a form with a stand-alone letter ᐃ i. This fourth-vowel variant had been removed so that Inuktitut could be typed and printed using IBM Selectric balls in

782-400: Is still haunted by the day he nearly killed a young girl who wandered into a confrontation scene). But Zweig doesn't avoid probing questions, particularly about the officers' and their colleagues' transgressions, personal and otherwise. Even if he gets evasive answers, the responses remain incredibly telling. Coppers had its World Premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and

828-467: Is the first of his films to include the use of animation. Hurt follows Steve Fonyo , the celebrated Canadian runner with an artificial leg who raised millions of dollars for cancer research, only to decline into addiction and homelessness. Literally following in the footsteps of Terry Fox, Fonyo ran across Canada to raise awareness for cancer research and went on to receive the Order of Canada , before it

874-409: The 2017 Toronto International Film Festival . His latest film, Coppers , is centred on former police officers as they recount the traumas that continues to haunt them long after they turned in their gun and shield. Zweig’s insightful questioning and sympathetic tone allows a space where some pretty astonishing things are revealed, both about the nature of police work and, inadvertently, about some of

920-584: The Festival au Désert . In February 2010, six members of Artcirq represented Nunavut in performances at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. In late 2007, the Igloolik Hunters and Trappers Organization (HTO) banned all forms of tourism (sport hunting, filming, photography, watching) related to the northern Foxe Basin walrus population for a period of two years. This ban

966-517: The Toronto International Film Festival . Igloolik is also the home-base of the only Inuit circus , Artcirq . This collective is active in video-making, music production and live circus show performances. Early in 2008, when temperatures in Igloolik were at −50 °C (−58 °F), eight members of Artcirq went to Essakane north of Timbuktu , Mali , where temperatures were 40 °C (104 °F), to perform at

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1012-626: The Unicode standard. The Unicode block for Inuktitut characters is called Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics . The first efforts to write Inuktitut came from Moravian missionaries in Greenland and Labrador in the mid-19th century using Latin script. The first book printed in Inuktitut using Cree script was an 8-page pamphlet known as Selections from the Gospels in the dialect of

1058-496: The sod houses that were originally in the area, not to snow igloos . In Inuktitut the residents are called Iglulingmiut (the suffix miut means "people of"). Information about the area's earliest inhabitants comes mainly from numerous archaeological sites on the island; some dating back more than 4,000 years. First contact with Europeans came when the British Royal Navy ships HMS Fury and HMS Hecla , under

1104-535: The 1970s. The reinstatement was justified on the grounds that modern printing and typesetting equipment no longer suffers the restrictions of earlier typewriting machinery. The ai-pai-tai column is used only in Nunavik. Alan Zweig Alan Zweig is a Canadian documentary filmmaker known for often using film to explore his own life. Alan Zweig was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario and has worked in

1150-633: The Best Canadian Feature Film prize at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and was listed as one of Canada's Top Ten Films that year. Inspired by the non-fiction book "Why Not: Fifteen Reasons to Live" by Ray Robertson , this film is an examination on the nature of human happiness by looking at the personal stories of 15 individuals. Through their stories, Zweig compiles his reasons to live: love, solitude, critical mind, art, individuality, home, work, humour, friendship, intoxication, praise, meaning, body, duty and death. This

1196-796: The Iglulingmiut, the Aivilingmiut , and the Tununirmiut, the Inuit from northern Baffin Island , on Southampton Island , and in the Melville Peninsula . An ancient legend from the Igloolik area was adapted by Zacharias Kunuk into the award-winning Canadian film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner in 2001. In 2004, Isuma produced the film The Journals of Knud Rasmussen which was released in September 2006 after premiering at

1242-592: The Inuit of Little Whale River ( ᒋᓴᓯᑊ ᐅᑲᐤᓯᐣᑭᐟ , "Jesus' words"), printed by John Horden in 1855–56 at Moose Factory for Edwin Arthur Watkins to use among the Inuit at Fort George . In November 1865, Horden and Watkins met in London under Henry Venn 's direction to adapt Cree syllabics to the Inuktitut language. In the 1870s, Edmund Peck , another Anglican missionary, started printing according to that standard. Other missionaries, and later linguists in

1288-680: The command of Captain William Edward Parry , wintered in Igloolik in 1822. The island was visited in 1867 and 1868 by the American explorer Charles Francis Hall in his search for survivors of the lost Franklin Expedition . In 1913, Alfred Tremblay , a French-Canadian prospector with Captain Joseph-Elzéar Bernier ’s expedition to Pond Inlet , extended his mineral exploration overland to Igloolik, and in 1921

1334-595: The employ of the Canadian and American governments, adapted the Latin alphabet to the dialects of the Mackenzie River delta, the western Arctic islands and Alaska . The Inuktitut script ( titirausiq nutaaq ) is commonly presented as a syllabary . The dots on the letters in the table mark long vowels ; in the Latin transcription, the vowel is doubled. For geminate consonants , the final consonant symbol

1380-676: The entertainment industry, but also the question of what it means to be Jewish. The film features interviews with and/or performance clips of a wide variety of Jewish comedy performers and writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Howie Mandel , Gilbert Gottfried , Rodney Dangerfield , Eugene Mirman , Marc Maron , Bob Einstein , Andy Kindler , Shelley Berman , Alan King , Judy Gold , Elon Gold , David Steinberg , Jackie Mason , Jack Carter , Norm Crosby , Henny Youngman , David Brenner , Shecky Greene , Mark Breslin , Cory Kahaney , Harrison Greenbaum , Simon Rakoff , Lisa Lambert , Larry Josephson and Michael Wex . The film won

1426-420: The film industry as a writer, producer, director, driver, and actor. Before finding success as a filmmaker, Alan Zweig drove a taxicab for fifteen years. Early in his career, Zweig’s short films — Trip Sheet (1976), The Boys (1977) and Stealing Images (1989) – provide rare insight into his early inspirations, influences and themes. They run the gamut from documentary to mock doc to fiction. Trip Sheet

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1472-418: The first place. Zweig spends a large portion of the film in stylized self-filmed "confessions", where he expounds on his life in regard to record collecting, feeling it has prevented him from fulfilling his dreams of a family. In addition to celebrities like Canadian director/actor Don McKellar and American Splendor creator Harvey Pekar , Zweig speaks to a variety of record collectors. Collectors include

1518-455: The forefront, Zweig has created a rare and exceptional documentary sequel that attempts to look at the road forward and leave a troubled past behind. Taking its name from the English translation of Igloolik , There Is A House Here , Alan tells a “fish out of water”. The fish is himself, an urban Jew. The environment strange to him is the damaged culture of Inuit in the high Arctic. Despite

1564-437: The gap between Zweig’s work in fiction films and introduces themes, questions and techniques that resurface in his later documentaries. In his documentary work, Alan never pretends not to be there, placing himself inside the narrative along with the rest of his subjects. His use of first-person video diary is a courageous method of self-analysis, introspection and presence that speaks to the audience as if there were no camera in

1610-407: The home. Alan Zweig interviews notable curmudgeons like Fran Lebowitz , Harvey Pekar and Bruce LaBruce . Zweig wants to know what their problem is and, more importantly, whether it’s the same as his. Zweig analyzes the fallout of his negativity, shaving it down and focusing its meaning with the help of hilarious and honest insights from his raucous cast of misfits. The film cleverly examines

1656-450: The notion of the unreliable narrator, the protagonist as poseur. Zweig used a composite of film world acquaintances to shape his lead character, a film director who seems to have everything going for him, but in reality has nothing going on at all. Stealing Images sits where autobiography and parody meet, and is perhaps less a reflection and more a projection of Zweig’s struggle with his own perceived failure. This collection of shorts bridges

1702-492: The outside world via a satellite backbone. The Qiniq network is designed and operated by SSI Micro . In 2017, the network was upgraded to 4G LTE technology, and 2G-GSM for mobile voice. The community is served by the Igloolik Airport . Inuktitut syllabics The name qaniujaaqpait [qaniujaːqpaˈit] derives from the root qaniq , meaning "mouth". The alternative, Latin-based writing system

1748-405: The personal flaws of those that choose the profession in the first place. A sort of companion piece to A Hard Name , his 2009 documentary about former inmates, Coppers interviews a dozen or so retired police officers. Although their beats ranged from large and mid-level cities to very small towns, their experiences, perhaps surprisingly, are quite similar. As one ex-cop remarks, "No one calls

1794-551: The police when they're having a great day." Most have witnessed scenes anyone would have a hard time living with. One officer describes a murder suicide where the killer dispatched his victim with a statue of a German shepherd and a cassette recorder. Another, assigned to a particularly harsh detail, breaks down in tears, overwhelmed by the amount of horrifying evidence he had to comb through. A disarming interviewer, Zweig lets his subjects talk about what troubled them most: high stress, horrific crimes, racism, sexism, and guilt (one cop

1840-462: The risks of being a naysayer in a society continually pitching the positive. For Zweig, the naysayers are today's heroes, the ones who are not afraid to say, 'Hey, the emperor has no clothes!' In this final instalment of the autobiographical trilogy that includes Vinyl and I, Curmudgeon, Alan Zweig reflects with disarming candour on why, if he longs for a partner and children, he is still single at mid-life. The film analyzes his lack of success finding

1886-415: The room. This generous sharing of personal experiences, neuroses, fantasies and opinions acts as an empathetic way of drawing out the same in others. Zweig has honed a conversational interview style and easy repartee with his subjects that result in some of the most inspiring vulnerability and honesty you will ever experience while watching film. Alan first became known for his 1989 film Stealing Images ,

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1932-538: The struggle of ex-convicts to lead normal lives in A Hard Name , which received the Genie Award for best documentary. His 2013 film When Jews Were Funny , an exploration of the role of Jewish comedians in North American comedy and humour, won the prize for Best Canadian Feature Film at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival . Again, he uses most of the movie exploring his own position as

1978-433: Was Zweig’s first film, an impressionistic hybrid doc made in his first year at Sheridan College . Shot on colour reversal stock, the film follows cab drivers on their daily beat, a profession that Zweig himself pursued throughout the 1980s. Unseen for more than 30 years, The Boys , an improvised film shot in semi-vérité style, stars four strangers as best friends. The award-winning fiction film Stealing Images , investigates

2024-509: Was also named one as part of TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten screening series of the ten best Canadian films of the year. At the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016, Hurt won the award for Best Feature Length Documentary. This sequel to the 2015 documentary Hurt picks up as Steve Fonyo recovers from his coma and admits that he needs to make changes to his life if he is going to be able to continue on. Recovering in hospital, Steve allows Zweig to follow him through his lows, hoping he might find

2070-421: Was in response to an observed decrease in walrus. The Igloolik Inuit continued to harvest walrus while the tourism ban was in place. In 2017, documentary film maker Alan Zweig released There Is a House Here , a documentary film about his visits to the community. In the 2021 Canadian census conducted by Statistics Canada , Igloolik had a population of 2,049 living in 394 of its 468 total private dwellings,

2116-405: Was later stripped from him when his image as a cancer survivor and athlete changed following drug addictions and run-ins with the law. The film includes sequences where Zweig arranged (and captured) meetings between Fonyo and the esteemed Dr. Gabor Maté, an expert in addictions and childhood trauma. The film won the inaugural Platform Prize at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The film

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