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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.

    uploaded date: 11-11-2017

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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

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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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