Taqqut Productions

Taqqut is a creator and producer of film and television projects. It also provides project production services including web design, marketing and technical writing.{{cite web|url=https://taqqut.com/about/|title=About |publisher=Taqqut Productions|accessdate=May 3, 2020}} Taqqut Productions is Inuit-owned and has a mandate of bringing stories of the North to the world through the voices of people from the North.{{cite web|url=https://ammsa.com/publications/windspeaker/taqqut-productions-sets-films-north-aglow|title=Taqqut Productions sets films of the north aglow|website=Ammsa.com}}

The name {{lang|iu|taqqut}} comes from an Inuktitut word. For hundreds of years Inuit used a tool called a {{lang|iu|taqqut}} to fan the flames of their {{lang|iu|qulliq}}, the stone lamps that burn oil from rendered animal fat. This tool, the {{lang|iu|taqqut}}, would become blackened with soot after fanning flames and could then be used to draw images and tell stories.

Anaana's Tent is a children's television show target toward 2 to 5-year-olds. It was filmed in both Inuktitut and English, but has an emphasis on teaching children the Inuktitut language.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/anaana-s-tent-inuktitut-kids-show-1.4647606 |title=New Inuktitut show for preschoolers to premiere on APTN |date=4 May 2018 |publisher= Canadian Broadcasting Corporation}}

It is hosted by Rita Claire Mike-Murphy and consists of different segments including live action, puppets and animated segments.{{cite web|url=http://playbackonline.ca/2018/09/14/aptn-sets-up-anaanas-tent/|title=APTN sets up Anaana's Tent|first=Regan |last=Reid|date=September 14, 2018}} Taqqut Productions announced via Twitter on 11 March 2019 that they were working on a second season of the show.{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/anaanastent/status/1095054318921691136|title=You are in luck! We are in the middle of production on season 2 right now ;)|publisher=@anaanastent |website=Twitter.com|date=11 February 2019}}{{Primary source inline|date=May 2019}}

In 2018 the Canada Media Fund announced that the Taqqut Productions project Arctic Horror Stories, produced in partnership with Colombia's Conexion Creativa, would recited $59,560 in funding. This funding comes from a Canada-Columbia Codevelopment Incentive.{{cite web |url=http://playbackonline.ca/2018/07/16/canada-colombia-incentive-awards-235k-across-four-projects/ |title=Canada-Colombia incentive awards $235K across four projects |first=Lauren |last=Malyk|date=July 16, 2018}}

Taqqut has produced a number of short animated films, including

• Amaqqut Nunat: The Country of Wolves (2011)
• The Orphan and the Polar Bear (2013)
• The Amautalik (2014)
• Ogress of the Gravelbank (2015)
• Little Fold of the Arctic (2015)
• The Owl and the Lemming (2016)
• Ukaliq and Kalla Go Fishing (2017){{cite web|url=https://taqqut.com/films-and-television/|title=Films & Television |publisher=Taqqut Productions |accessdate=May 3, 2020}}
• The Giant Bear (2018){{cite web|url=https://athensanimfest.eu/2019/en/movies/277/|publisher=Athens Animfest 2019 |title=Giant Bear: Audience Award Short |date=May 17, 2019}}

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• {{Official website|https://taqqut.com/}}

Category:Canadian companies established in 2011

Category:Companies based in Nunavut

Category:Iqaluit

Category:Film production companies of Canada

Category:Television production companies of Canada

Category:Indigenous film and television production companies in Canada

Category:Indigenous organizations in Nunavut

Category:Mass media companies established in 2011

Category:2011 establishments in Nunavut