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Isuma Style

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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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Publicity contact
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Cecilia Greyson
Director of Communications
Email: cecilia@isuma.tv
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Isuma films are available through our association with VTape, who ships and bills orders for us to anywhere in the world from Toronto.
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Isuma films are available through our association with VTape, who ships and bills orders for us to anywhere in the world from Toronto.
Purchase Rates for Institutions may include public performance and circulation rights and are designed for museums, galleries, libraries, universities and media archives of all sorts.
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Nunavut (Our Land) Episode 1: Qimuksik (Dog Team)

Nunavut (Our Land) Episode 1: Qimuksik (Dog Team), Igloolik Isuma Productions 1995, Producers Zacharias Kunuk, Pauloosie Qulitalik, Norman Cohn. Inuktut w/English s-t.

The 13-part Nunavut (Our Land) series follows five fictional families through the different seasons of an Arctic year, from spring to a uniquely Inuit Christmas Day. In Qimuksik (Dog Team) one family travels in the immense and beautiful arctic during spring. Inuaraq teaches his young son how to survive in the old way: driving the dogs, building the igloo, catching seals on the open water, running down caribou to feed the family.

Duration:

28m 52s

Tagged:

Dogteam, Nunavut (Our Land) Series, qimuksik, raven

Languages:

Inuktitut

Location:

Igloolik, NU, Canada

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