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The Art of Inuit Storytelling
Zacharias Kunuk (b. 1957, Kapuivik near Igloolik) won the Camera d’or at Cannes 2001 for Isuma’s first feature, Atanarjuat The Fast Runner.

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Qaggiq (Gathering Place) 1988

First Isuma recreated fiction. A late-winter Inuit camp in the 1930's. Four families build a qaggiq, a large communal igloo, to celebrate the coming of spring with games, singing and drum dancing. A young man seeks a wife. The girl's father says no, but her mother says yes...

Qaggiq is a part of the Unikaatuatiit (Story Tellers) Series.

Filmmaker: Zacharias Kunuk, Norman Cohn, P. Qulitalik

Filmmaker Contact: zkunuk [at] isuma [dot] ca; info [at] isuma [dot] tv

Producer's Name: Zacharias Kunuk, Norman Cohn, P. Qulitalik

Year of Production: 1988

Distributor Information: Vtape

Country: Canada

Region: Igloolik; Nunavut, Canadian Arctic

Duration:

58m 23s

Tagged:

communal igloo celebration, drum dancing, games, ift_community_OldIglulik, Unikaatuatiit (Story Tellers) Series

Languages:

Inuktitut

Location:

Keewatin Region, NU, Canada

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Tungijuq

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channel: IsumaTV 2.0

What We Eat: Inuit jazz throat-singer Tanya Tagaq, and Cannes-winning filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, talk back to Brigitte Bardot and anti-sealhunting lobby on the eternal reality of hunting. Selected for Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, Best Short, imagineNATIVE Film Fest 2009.

uploaded date: 12-03-2009
45m 11s

Issaittuq (Waterproof)

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channel: MICH Living Archives

This second Isuma-Artcirq co-production by Igloolik youth is a story about a young Inuk who lost his love. Using alcohol to put reality and the past behind, the past keeps hunting him. When he loses control and beats up a man on the street he is sentenced to two months in an outpost camp, where a hunter is waiting for him.

Filmmaker: Bruce Haulli-Kenneth Rasmussen

uploaded date: 10-02-2007
58m 16s

Nunaqpa (Going Inland) 1991

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channel: MICH Living Archives

Second Isuma recreated fiction, 1991. Summer in the 1930's. For Igloolik Inuit, it is the time of Nunaqpa, 'going inland,' the long walk in search of summer-fat caribou to catch enough meat for the hard winter ahead. Two families leave for the hunt, while the old couple waits by the shore for their return...

uploaded date: 29-10-2006
8m 48s

407

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channel: Artcirq

This short film highlights the importance, in a small Arctic community, of simply saying "hello" to those we meet on the streets. This could change or even save a life.

Production year: 2007
Format: HDV

Filmmaker: Bruce Haulli
Producer: Guillaume Saladin & Bruce Haulli (Artcirq)

uploaded date: 21-02-2006

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