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How Lucy Tulugarjuk started working at Isuma, 1997

By Gabriela Gámez, May 2019

Lucy talks about how she started working with the Isuma collective since 1997. She started first as the manager of Nunavut Independent Television Network's (NITV) show called Tariajsuq. Soon after she would step into the role of host for the show when the host didn't show-up. She also talks about how it was to work on the role of Puja in Isuma's feature film, Atanarjuat the Fast Runner.

Film audio of One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk

By Isuma, May 2019

Listen to the audio of the film. In April 1961, John Kennedy is America’s new President, the Cold War heats up in Berlin and nuclear bombers are deployed from bases in arctic Canada. In Kapuivik, north Baffin Island, Noah Piugattuk’s nomadic Inuit band live and hunt by dog team as his ancestors did when he was born in 1900. When the white man known as Boss arrives at Piugattuk’s hunting camp, what appears as a chance meeting soon opens up the prospect of momentous change. Boss is an agent of the government, assigned to get Piugattuk to move his band to settlement housing and send his children to school so they can get jobs and make money. But Kapuivik is Piugattuk’s homeland. He takes no part in the Canadian experience; and cannot imagine what his children would do with money.