Artist

Stephen Agluvak Puskas

Stephen Agluvak Puskas is co-founder and former producer for Nipivut, Montreal's Inuit community radio show. Selected by the Senate in 2017 as an Indigenous Youth Leader, Stephen works to improve Indigenous representation in media and to shed light on the exploitation of Inuit culture like with Ungava Gin. He volunteers for Dawson College's Indigenous Education Council and has also helped write the Inuit chapter of the Indigenous cultural awareness manual for the SPVM. Stephen's film about Inuit self-representation, Ukiuktaqtumi (OO-KEE-UK-TAK-TOO-MEE) recently won the Prix de la Releve at 2017's Presence Autochtone and he is currently an associate producer at the National Film Board, working on the coastal Labrador project, which aims to support Labrador Inuit in producing documentary films.

Artist Code: 2069

Videography

Ukiuktaqtumi

2016, 30:07 minutes, Colour, English

Critical Writing

Inuit TakugatsaliuKatiget / On Inuit Cinema
by Mark Turner. St. John's: Memorial University Press, 2022.