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Sunday, 29 November 2009

[creative-radio] NTI to Host Annual Year-in-Review Program Live on CBC Radio Dec. 3 and 4, 2009 from 1:30-3:00 p.m. EST.

NTI to Host Annual Year-in-Review Program Live on CBC Radio

Released | November 28, 2009 |

Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. will host its annual Year-in-Review program live on
CBC radio on Dec. 3 and 4, 2009 from 1:30-3:00 p.m. EST.

NTI President Paul Kaludjak will participate Dec. 3. First Vice-President
James Eetoolook and Vice-President of Finance Raymond Ningeocheak will
participate Dec. 4. Both broadcasts will be recorded live on CBC's
Tausunni Program by well-known host Lisa Ipeelie.

The annual Year-in-Review Program gives Beneficiaries the opportunity to
call in and express their concerns and ask questions of NTI's executive
officers. The program also provides an opportunity to update Beneficiaries
on the accomplishments made by NTI in 2008.

Beneficiaries are encouraged to listen to the program and take part by
calling in with questions about issues, including Nunavut Land Claims
Agreement implementation, finances, Inuit and Impact Benefit Agreements,
wildlife, and the lawsuit against the Government of Canada. Audience
members can call toll- free at 1-888-896-4135 or 867-979-6151.

This is the 7th annual Year-in-Review Program hosted by NTI.

For further information:

Kerry McCluskey
Associate Director of Communications
Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated
Tel: (867) 975-4914
Toll-free: 1-888-646-0006
kmccluskey@tunngavik.com

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[creative-radio] Indigenous practice fights food crisis in Chittagong Hill Tracts region.

http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=147922&cid=2

Sun, Nov 29th, 2009 3:31 pm BdST

Kamran Reza Chowdhury
bdnews24.com senior correspondent

Dhaka, Nov 27 (bdnews24.com)�A traditional indigenous practice is
being taken up by different communities to fight a food crisis in the
Chittagong Hill Tracts region. Bengalis and other ethnic groups have
adopted the practice of the Mro tribe, of creating a Rice Bank, in their
own communities.

They say the Rice Bank can give them the chance to prepare as rodents
threaten another spell of destruction of crops including paddy in the
coming season.

The vast bamboo growing areas�spreading over parts of India,
Bangladesh (taking in the hill tracts) and Myanmar�have been facing
acute food shortages since 2007 due to a rat plague, which occurs on
regular basis every 47 to 50 years.

According to government, around 1.1 million people live in the hill
districts of Rangamati, Khagrachari and Bandarban, with an area of over
13,000 square kilometres. Half belong to different indigenous groups and
half are Bengalis who settled in the 1970s and 80s.

Chakma, Bengali, Marma, Mro, Tenchunga, Pankho are the major communities.

Mro farmers have traditionally deposited rice in a 'bank' during the
harvest period. Community members can take grain from it when necessary.
Non-farmers can also take food from the bank so the whole community
overcomes hunger together.

UNDP, with financial grants from the European Commission, has been
promoting the Rice Bank model among different communities to face poverty
in clusters of villages dotted in the hill tracts.

"We have already started our own Rice Bank," Chandra Bahu Chakma, a leader
of the Sagupara village in Rangamati Sadar, told a visiting European
Commission delegation on Nov 26.

A total of 24 families live in the island village on Kaptai lake in
Rangamati district.

Marma leader Aung Sang Jai Karbari, of Karbaripara in Jibtoli union, told
bdnews24.com: "It is a very effective way of facing food shortages in our
communities."

Mohammad Shah Alam of Killamura-Bangalipara village in Balu Khali said his
village was also creating a Rice Bank village from next year.

He clarified that all villagers, irrespective of their livelihoods, would
get rice from the buffer stock during crisis periods.

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[creative-radio] Equal Access in Nepal seeks a Country Director

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Subject: [Asiapacific-general] FW: Equal Access in Nepal seeks a Country
Director
From: "Suman Basnet" <suman_basnet@asiapacific.amarc.org>
Date: Sun, November 29, 2009 06:34
To: "AMARC_AP_General_List" <asiapacific-general@lists.amarc.org>
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FYKI

From: Michael Bosse [mailto:mbosse@equalaccess.org]
Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 4:42 AM
To: Michael Bosse
Cc: Nirmal Prasad Rijal; Ronni Goldfarb; Upendra Aryal
Subject:

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

As has been announced publically, our long time Country Director, Nirmal
Rijal, will be leaving his post early in the new year to commence a PhD
program at Queensland University of Technology in Australia after many
successful years of service to Equal Access in Nepal. We are currently
recruiting for a replacement Country Director and wanted to send you the
vacancy announcement as part of our efforts to spread this as widely as
possible and attract a strong field of candidates for the position. The due
date for applications is December 5th.

Please forward on this vacancy to anyone you think might be interested and
qualified and also join me in thanking Nirmal for his contributions to the
field of media development over this past five years and wishing him the
best for his PhD. He will still remain very much involved with Equal Access
during his studies and would likely have occasion to be in touch with all of
you as his research on media in Nepal progresses.

Warm regards,

Michael Bosse

Vice President of Programs

Equal Access

Country Director - Nepal

We invite applications from qualified, experienced and interested Nepali
citizens for the following position based in Kathmandu, Nepal in
anticipation of the departure of the incumbent for an International PhD.

Position Description

Reporting to the EAI Director of Programs, and responsible to the EAN Board,
the Country Director is responsible for leading the overall organizational
operations in the realization of its Nepal program. The Country Director
oversees the general administration and financial management of the Nepal
office, as well as developing and maintaining key partnerships and
representing the organization to key donors and partner groups. The Country
Director has oversight responsibilities for staff and shares program
management responsibilities with local staff and staff at EAI headquarters.
This position will afford the appropriate candidate the opportunity to play
a leading role in the development, maintenance and scaling-up of development
communication programs to support national efforts towards reconstruction
and long-term development in Nepal. Although the candidate will be expected
to work autonomously, there will be support from EAI as required.

This position is based in Kathmandu, Nepal, however as Country Director,
international travel, particularly to other countries where EAI has
activities may be required.

Primary Responsibilities:

Operational and Representation

* Responsible for nurturing a sound and healthy relationship with EAI
and with other Equal Access country offices;
* Provide strategic leadership and oversight to the Nepal Country
Office program: In coordination with EAI, will be responsible for providing
strategic direction for EAN, in keeping with its vision, mission and
objectives. Will also be responsible for managing the growth of EAN;
* Represent EAI and EAN in formal and informal relationships with the
Government, donors, partners and beneficiaries including local government
agencies, UN agencies, bilateral agencies, international and local NGOs and
other stakeholders;
* Uphold the Equal Access Standard of Excellence through performance
as well as presentation of the organization;
* Responsible for overall financial and other management controls for
budget expenditures in accordance with EAI and EAN policies and procedures,
and oversee budget re-alignments and amendments when necessary. Will be
responsible to ensure sound financial management systems in the
organization, and working with the finance department, will be responsible
for preparing annual budgets to meet organizational needs and ensuring sound
financial practices;
* Responsible for overall staff management, leading management
committee meetings and ensuring the effective implementation of EAN's Human
Resource Policy including its timely review and revision;
* Lead security related decision making and response, and develop,
update and maintain a security policy as necessary;
* Responsible for overall management of contractors that support EAI
and EAN operations and programs;
* Travel from Kathmandu to the field as needed.

Program

* Support quality project planning, implementation, and M&E in a
manner consistent with Equal Access' working principles ensuring programs
are designed, managed and implemented in a timely and high-quality manner,
according to pre-established workplans, and basing program decisions on
reliable and accurate data;
* Support improvement of program quality through appropriate M&E,
including ensuring M&E plans are developed and initiated at the onset of all
grants, that staff adhere to a data collection plan, and reports and
proposals are developed with accurate and timely information;
* Work with staff to develop operational budgets that reflect a
detailed understanding of situational parameters, beneficiary needs,
available resources, and technical possibilities;
* Responsible for timely quality reporting to donors, partners and HQ
and compliance with grant and contracts;
* Identify and document best practices and lessons learned that can be
successfully replicated across sectors, and assist program staff to
integrate into their programs.

Staff Supervision and Development

* Provide overall supervision and support for all program staff,
including direct supervision of program managers and finance and admin
staff;
* Proactively develop the capacity of staff to understand and apply
Equal Access principles and methodologies in all aspects of their work;
* Develop a strong team through proper selection, evaluations,
appropriate discipline and staff development and ensure personal and
professional development of staff is undertaken through regular formal and
informal performance reviews, ongoing mentoring, and identification of
appropriate formal training opportunities;
* Develop the managerial capacity of individual senior staff;
* In direct supervision and through monitoring of other supervisors,
ensure good staff management standards promoting discipline, efficiency and
harmonious working environment;
* Promote transparent decision-making through open communication and
regular meetings.

Resource Mobilization

* Develop a resource mobilization plan with annual and longer term
targets and ensure that these targets are met;
* With support from EAI, lead in-country resource mobilisation efforts
and coordinate the development of high quality draft proposals and budgets
for submission to donors and support EAI staff's international resource
mobilization efforts for Nepal;
* Work closely with EAI's Director of Business Development and the EAN
business development coordinator to support resource mobilization efforts,
both locally and internationally for EAI and for EAN;
* Develop informational materials on the Nepal program portfolio.

Qualifications/Essential skills:

* Must be prepared to join a growing organization and to take on the
challenges associated with growth, and also see personal advancement with
the growth of the organization;
* An advanced university degree with at least 7 years experience
working at a senior management level in international development.
International development exposure will be preferred for this position;
* A thorough understanding of Nepal and the challenges that the
country faces.
* Strong leadership skills, a consistent communicator, both written
and oral; solid business management skills; excellent networking skills
regarding interface with partners and local government officials to
accomplish organizational goals;
* A "self-starter" requiring minimal daily supervision and able to
initiate actions to achieve results
* A sound understanding of and commitment towards good development
practices including participatory approaches, building of ownership and
sustainability and ability to consistently work as a member of a team;
* Experienced or capacity to manage financial aspects of operations
including managing expenditures and generating expenditure reports for
donors;
* Good working knowledge of computer programs including use of E-mail,
Power Point, Excel and Word;
* Fluent in Nepali and English with excellent analytical, writing and
communication skills. Knowledge of additional languages of Nepal will be an
asset;
* Commitment to Equal Access' organization and mission.

Reporting Relationship:

The Country Director reports to the Director of Programs, based in EAI
headquarters in San Francisco. When appropriate, the Country Director will
also work directly with other Equal Access HQ staff including the Executive
Director, Director of Administration and Finance, and the Business
Development Director. The Country Director will also report to the EAN Board
in accordance with the policies of the organization.

EA Nepal Program Background

Equal Access International (EAI) is a leading development communications
organization working in Nepal, four other countries in Asia, Yemen and the
Sahel region in Africa. Equal Access Nepal (EAN) is the local partner for
EAI in Nepal, registered as a local NGO in Nepal. EAN creates multi-media
initiatives to support public education, awareness-raising, and outreach on
a broad range of critical social development issues. Our programs include
radio, print and some video production, in-house and through trained
community reporters and broadcasting of the same to national audiences;
participatory street theatre and campaigns on social issues, human rights
and leadership trainings; facilitation of public roundtable forums; support
to community listening and advocacy groups; and communications and outreach
trainings for a variety of stakeholders. An important element of our work
includes maintaining close working relationships with the media and
communication sector in Nepal to build sectoral capacity through training,
technology support, conducting broadcast signal reach mapping and audience
surveys and enabling a free flow of information and freedom of expression.
Our multi-sector programming includes, but is not limited to, human rights,
governance, peace building, women's issues, early childhood development,
inclusive quality education, infant nutrition, mother and neo-natal child
health, general health and hygiene, youth, life skills and livelihoods, safe
migration, agriculture, civil society and the economy. Through our
radio-based 'voices from the field' programs, rural and under-served Nepali
citizens participate in producing content that responds to their needs.

Through our combined programming and outreach we reach a regular audience of
millions of beneficiaries each week.

Based in Kathmandu since 2002, and registered as a local NGO in 2004, EAN
develops programming broadcast to audiences across Nepal through the state
broadcaster - Radio Nepal, a network of dozens of rural and semi-urban
independent FM radio stations, and on our satellite radio network 'Afnai
mato, afnai boli'. EAN works with the government, local community-based
organizations, national and international NGOs, bilateral donors, private
foundations and UN agencies.

Please submit a cover letter clearly stating why you have applied for and
how you are suitable for this position, contact information for three
referees, and salary requirements. Please include an updated CV/resume and
send to the following address or email, no later than December 5, 2009.

Digital Broadcast Initiative Equal Access Nepal
GPO Box No: 118, Lalitpur, Nepal
Email: eanepal@equalaccess.orgeanepal(_AT_)equalaccess.org

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview. Telephone
calls will not be entertained. Women and people from traditionally
marginalized groups are encouraged to apply.

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Saturday, 28 November 2009

[creative-radio] Mexican radio journalist found assassinated in Jalisco

Mexican radio journalist found assassinated in Jalisco

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After missing work for several days, José Emilio Galindo Robles, the
regional director for Radio Universidad de Guadalajara in Ciudad Guzmán,
was found dead inside his home, Milenio reports. Authorities have given
little information about the case but have confirmed that the journalist
was killed. A motive had not been confirmed.

Galindo, 43, known as "Pepe Galindo," had experience as a reporter and
researcher of environmental topics, especially environmental legislation.

He won the Second Biennial of Latin American Radio for a report about
political crimes in Mexico, El Informador adds. In 2004 he won first prize
in the Biennial of National Radio for a report about pollution of the
Santiago River caused by private companies, Proceso says.

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Friday, 27 November 2009

[creative-radio] The Business of Radio in Nepal

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Subject: The Business of Radio in Nepal
From: "Pratyoush Onta" <pratyoushonta@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, November 27, 2009 20:57
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I would like to submit the following article to our group.
Pratyoush Onta
Kathmandu, Nepal

The Business of Radio in Nepal

by Pratyoush Onta

There is a hybrid business environment for radio in Nepal. While most of
the private-sector owned radios rely, for the most part, on the local and
nationally significant businesses for advertisement revenue, radios run by
NGOs, local government entities, educational institutions and cooperatives
receive donor funding in various forms. Apart from the advertisement
market, private-sector radios also rely on sponsored programmes and
occasionally receive donor money to produce specific thematic programmes.

Commercial FMs
Sustainability has been an issue in debate for commercial FMs since the
early days (ie late 1990s) of independent radio in Nepal. For instance we
can look at the case of FMs in the city of Pokhara. In early 2001, four
commercial FM radio stations came into operation within a two-month period
in Pokhara. In May 2001, many Pokhara residents, including some promoters
of FM radios told researchers that four stations could not survive in the
city. They thought two would or at most three.

Pokhara's economy, they thought, could not support four FM radios. The
city does not have a large industrial base. Its tourism industry was not
in great shape then or geared toward serving local clients. Remittances
from long-distance labourers constituted nearly a quarter of the city's
income but most of it was being invested in private real estate after the
families took care of their more immediate needs. The growth in the
service industry in the late 1990s, mainly in the form of higher-level
educational institutions, ten plus two schools and computer institutes,
had provided advertisements to Pokhara's newspapers.

But if this advertisement had to be shared between the newspapers and the
radio stations, those who talked to media researchers in 2001 feared that
there would be serious undercutting of advertisement rates. Undercutting
has happened but none of the four FMs have gone bankrupt. In fact, those
four FMs have been joined in the intervening years by several other local
FMs and two that relay programmes from their respective Kathmandu-based
stations. Does this mean that all four of the early FMs in Pokhara and the
new ones are making money?

Not at all. Industry insiders say that most of the commercial radios,
including those in Pokhara, are running in a loss. The growth in the
independent radio sector since 1997 coincided with the political and
economic crisis generated by the intensification of the Maoist insurgency.
Until about the year 2000, the insurgency had not significantly impacted
the national industries and tourism. However from then on, tourist
arrivals began to drop sharply, industries began to feel the hit due to
Maoist extortions and intermittent disruptions at the workplace, and
development projects slowed down under threats to workers. Due to this
downturn in the economy, commercial FM stations experienced undercutting
in their advertisement rates and long delays in payments from their
clients.

However apart from two or three stations that went out of air temporarily
or shut down for pure managerial reasons, no commercial FM has gone out of
business citing their continuing losses. How is this possible? Many of the
companies that have invested in the radio sector know that they will not
be earning profits in the short-run. Hence the fact that they are running
in a loss in the initial years of their existence would not be news to
them. But there is also something else at work here.

Industry insiders have, over the years, told researchers that the
promoters of some of the radios that are running in a loss can sustain
some monetary loss each year because their logic of operation exceeds the
simple accounting notion of the bottom line. Such loss is often seen to be
an investment in social prestige or other cultural capital obtained from
running an important local media institution. Such loss can also be
recovered in monetary terms from other business ventures in the portfolio
of those promoting the concerned radio stations.

We can conclude that sustainability in the commercial radio industry then
has a social logic beyond the accountant's income and expenditure balance
and calls for an investigation that looks into how radio is embedded
within a social economy that is larger than the market economy. And radio
is not an exception in this matter. Big money losing ventures in the world
of print media in Nepal including broadsheet dailies continue to be
published years after media analysts predicted their death.

Community Radios
Radios dubbed as community radios have received the support of
international donors in setting up their stations and in producing various
types of development-oriented, rights-based, and educational programmes.
Once these stations come on air, they too have made an income by
broadcasting advertisements. Some of the community radio stations have
adopted a selective policy regarding the playing of advertisements. They
have chosen to not broadcast some advertisements that are broadcast over
commercial stations by claiming that they are exercising their social
responsibility in doing so. However their overall income stream does not
look all that different from those of commercial operators even as the
percentages of income these two different types of radios derive from
playing advertisements are not the same.

Some community radio stations have voluntary producers and other members
of the staff work in a semi-voluntary basis by taking a low pay. Other
stations have received free labour or contributions of cash and kind from
their listeners to set up buildings for their radio stations. Still others
have collected money from those described as 'friends of such-and-such
radio' to establish some kind of a corpus fund. However such efforts have
been executed in a half-hearted and haphazard manner. There is, as yet, no
systematic attempt to realise these ideas in a robust way and resources
obtained from such efforts, apart from the labour of voluntary radio
producers, have not contributed in a significant manner to keep these
stations going.

Many radio promoters who have set up community radios have talked about
various plans to make their ventures financially solvent without having to
rely on advertisement money and foreign donors. Many such individuals have
said that the central government is the key player in this issue.
According to them, the government can not only drastically reduce the
licence and renewal fees, but also give discounts in the phone and
electricity bills that community radios pay each month. These radio
activists have argued that the exorbitant fees along with the requirement
to pay royalties on their annual turnover are the biggest hurdle in the
path toward sustainability of community radios. This has also been the
view promoted by the Association of Community Radio Broadcasters Nepal
(ACORAB).

Other promoters feel that sustaining community radios would have been easy
had there been elected governments at the local level. As one such
promoter said in a discussion held at Martin Chautari (MC) in Kathmandu
almost two years ago, "Community radios could do programmes highlighting
the work going on in the village development committees (VDCs) in their
broadcast areas. They could even do programmes covering the various wards
of the VDCs in rotation and be paid NRs 25,000-30,000 per ward. However,
since there are no elected representatives, there is no incentive for the
wards to work with radios in this manner." Such individuals are also of
the view that if there were elected governments at the district
development committee (DDC) level, radios could ask for a small percentage
of the millions of rupees that each DDC mobilizes for development annually
for "awareness raising".

Some community radio activists feel that community radios in Nepal need to
learn from the experiences of other countries such as Switzerland and
Indonesia in being able to mobilize larger numbers of volunteers to run
their radios. However why those countries have been able to mobilize
volunteers in large numbers to run their radios and why this has not
happened in Nepal needs to be investigated. Some others have argued that
if community radios immerse themselves in cultivating social credibility
and in increasing participation of the members of the communities they
serve, sustainability of community radios should not be a problem in the
long run. But how this wisdom ought to be translated into a business model
has proved to be elusive.

Community radios have also benefited from the programming - and sometimes
financial - support of production houses that have produced programmes on
various themes with donor support. Among those houses doing this work (and
building their own networks of radios, both commercial and community
ones), the two based in Kathmandu, Antenna Foundation and Equal Access are
NGOs whereas another Kathmandu organisation, Communication Corner, is a
private limited company that also started operating its own FM station,
Ujyalo FM, from 2007. This kind of initiative has the potential to share
production resources of radio stations located in various parts of Nepal,
a subject that has been analysed in detail by my MC colleagues Devraj
Humagain, Komal Bhatta and Harsaman Maharjan in their book Radio Network
(in Nepali, 2008).

The sustainability of independent radios has become an even more pressing
issue since the Nepal government distributed licenses to more than 250
radio stations in the last three and half years. As the number of
independent radios in operation increases in the country, we need a public
debate on how to sustain them. Those with experience and knowledge out to
speak up.

Pratyoush Onta is a historian based at the research centre Martin Chautari
in Kathmandu. He has co-edited five books on the history of radio in Nepal
including Ten Years of Independent Radio: Development, Debates and the
Public Interest (in Nepali) published by MC in 2008.

This article was published in the Kathmandu newspaper Republica on 27
November 2009.

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Thursday, 26 November 2009

[creative-radio] "Raising Women's Voices Through Radio Worldwide"

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service
"Raising Women's Voices Through Radio Worldwide"

http://www.wings.org/

What WINGS Is . . .

"WINGS is at different times horrifying, exciting, funny, eye-opening and
definitely inspirational." --Nikki Reece, programme producer, Plains FM,
Christchurch, New Zealand

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman
independent radio production company that produces and distributes news
and current affairs programs by and about women around the world. WINGS
programs are used by non-commercial radio stations, women's studies, and
individuals. Programs can be heard on local radio stations, on shortwave,
on the internet, and on cassettes. The WINGS Mailing List provides updates
on stories and new information about women's media.

"Though I have been involved in women's issues for years, I was still
struck by the contrast of your broadcast to the news we are usually
hearing -- news reflecting male interests in a basically male world.
Women's affairs are a hidden current in the flow of world events."--
Kristin Reilly, listener, Buffalo, New York

Producers' Guide For Submitting Stories To
WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service
http://www.wings.org/submit.html

WINGS Mailing List:
E-mail wings@wings.org to receive periodic e-mail updates about WINGS
programs and women's media issues.
WINGS Radio Programs:
WINGS Weekly: A news and current affairs series featuring strong women's
voices and ideas from around the world. Catalog. Updated program listings
available via e-mail.
WINGS Newscasts:
Six radio programs per year in newscast format.
Women's News Roundup:
Annual one-hour production showcasing the "hottest women's radio news
stories of the year" and presenting the Katherine Davenport Award for
Women's News (DAWN prize).
WINGS Auxiliary Activities:
Conference Recording
WINGS annually records the plenaries of the U.S. National Women's Studies
Association and sells the cassettes. Call or e-mail WINGS to discuss
having your women's event recorded. This service helps support WINGS
radio.
WINGS Audio Production
A limited number of hours are available for editing and distribution for
clients. Books on tape, radio programs, radio adaptations from video. This
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CBQM: The Biggest Little Radio Station in the North - 'I'm darn proud of it' says Ruth Wright

'I'm darn proud of it'

Andrew Rankin
Northern News Services
Published Thursday, November 26, 2009

http://nnsl.com/northern-news-services/stories/papers/nov26_09den.html
INUVIK - After the movie CBQM: The Biggest Little Radio Station in the North ended at the community centre on Friday evening, Ruth Wright got up from her seat with tears in her eyes.
"It was just gorgeous," she said. "It's real people. We know them. I'm darn proud of it because it captures the beautiful land and spirit of our people."

Inuvik filmmaker Dennis Allen shares a laugh with Neil Colin, one of his main characters in CBQM: The Biggest Little Radio Station in the North. Colin had no trouble charming Friday's community centre audience as he and Allen spoke to the crowd about being involved with the film. - Andrew Rankin/NNSL photo

"I can't have any dry fish or dry meat, but just wait boy," she said with a laugh.
She wasn't the only one moved by Inuvik filmmaker Dennis Allen's lively inside look at the extraordinary community radio station based in Fort McPherson.
Inuvik resident Karen Mitchell grew up in Fort McPherson and said the movie offered so much to be proud of.
"It gave me the sense of homeliness," she said. "It didn't just portray one aspect of our community and its people, it included the land, the spirituality, both on the land and of the church and the connection of younger and older generations."
The humorous, often hilarious film, centres on the radio station, which is essentially the heart of the community.
Against the backdrop of classic country western music, the film introduces a range of colourful characters who volunteer to keep the station going, such as a group of local old-time country musicians playing their hearts out in live performances. Then there's the hosts, like the good natured, red-headed constable who urges kids to stop egging home windows and the lively elderly woman, who politely asks drunk listeners not to call and just to enjoy the music.
While radio commentators talk and music plays, hosts are barraged by residents calling in to wish their neighbours luck with bingo or to report on ice break-up on the river.
The camera visits the places in the community where the radio is being heard whether it's the school or beside an elder at home doing bead work. Mixed in are plenty of striking images of the surrounding landscape.
Allen, who was born and raised in Inuvik, was on hand for the showing as he had been present for its world debut more than two months ago in Fort McPherson. After the crowd filed out of the venue, he said he was pleased by the support, although he stopped short of saying he was surprised.
"It's offers a sense of community," he said. "(there's) so many people feel fragmented from their community. After watching this film I think they feel a sense of belonging."
The accomplished Inuvialuit director and musician said for that reason he's been a fan of the station for a long time. A few years ago he got the idea to create the film while driving in his vehicle near Fort McPherson. At the time he heard a particularly funny announcer looking to be relieved from his post so he could feed his dogs.
"It was 5:30 and he said 'I want to go home and feed my dogs, somebody come and relieve me.' Five minutes later he would repeat himself and he was getting more and more desperate.
"He was saying, 'You always want someone on the radio station but no one is phoning.' It was innocent, but it was comical. I wanted to make a film capturing that humour. That was the moment that really inspired me."
Friday's screening was the movie's fifth public showing. It's already been screened in festivals in Calgary and Toronto and will be entered in a variety of other national and international film festivals. Allen said after that the movie will broadcast on some television stations and in about a year will be available on DVD.
The film took two-and-a-half years to make, comprising about 60 hours of shooting. He was allowed up close and personal access into residents' lives because, he said, for the most part they knew him and trusted him.
"I was born and raised in Inuvik," he said. "Fort McPherson is two hours away. I know everybody. I guess they trusted me that I was going to do the right thing. Some people weren't receptive. Most people just opened their doors."

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CBQM, a short documentary in which filmmaker Dennis Allen pays tribute to the "Moccasin Telegraph," won the Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award, with a jury member saying, "Through accomplished storytelling, [Allen] has deftly captured the small, yet transformative, moments that make up human experience."
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Trailer for CBQM: The Biggest Little Radio Station in the North - on the NFB website

http://www.nfb.ca/film/cbqm_radio_trailer/

Dennis Allen, 2009, 2 min 12 s

Dennis Allen's feature-length documentary is about Fort McPherson, a Teetl'it Gwich'in community in the Northwest Territories, and its citizen-run radio station. A resilient expression of Aboriginal pride, CBQM serves a far-flung and loyal listenership – and plays the best damn country music in the Mackenzie Delta.

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