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    uploaded by: Gabriela Gamez

    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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    uploaded date: 11-11-2017

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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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    uploaded date: 11-11-2017

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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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    uploaded date: 14-11-2017

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  • 7m 23s

    Tungijuq (What We Eat)

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: IsumaTV 2.0

    Tungijuq (What We Eat), Isuma, Kunuk Cohn Productions 2009, Producer Stephane Rituit, Felix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphael, Zacharias Kunuk. Inuktut.

    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.

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    uploaded date: 12-03-2019

  • 45m 11s

    Issaittuq (Waterproof)

    uploaded by: Norman Cohn

    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. 

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    uploaded date: 10-02-2007

  • 58m 16s

    Nunaqpa (Going Inland)

    uploaded by: Norman Cohn

    channel: MICH Living Archives

    Nunaqpa is the second Isuma recreated fiction, filmed with actors in 1990 recreating a Summer caribou hunt 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 and grandmother wait by the shore for their return.

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    uploaded date: 29-10-2006

  • 8m 48s

    407

    uploaded by: Artcirq

    channel: Artcirq

    407, Artcirq, Igloolik Isuma, NITV productions 2006, Producer Guillaume Saladin, Director Bruce Haulli. Inuktut w/English s-t.

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    uploaded date: 21-02-2006

  • 58m 23s

    Qaggiq (Gathering Place)

    uploaded by: Norman Cohn

    channel: MICH Living Archives

    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...

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    uploaded date: 30-09-1988