I didn't expect that much success. It was the first feature film in
Inuktitut, by Inuit, and I was just aiming to see what mistakes we
would make and learn from them. Apparently we didn’t make any!
How important is the community to make Isuma successful?
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen takes place in Canada's remote northeastern Arctic during the early years of the 20th Century. 700 kilometres separates the trading post in Repulse Bay, at the base of Melville Peninsula, from the one at Pond's Inlet on the northern tip of Baffin Island. Between them ranges a vast uncharted wilderness whose centre is Igloolik.
My name is Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen, and I was born in Jakobshavn, Greenland on June 7, 1879. I am of both Inuit and Danish descent and speak fluent Inuktitut. I am an experienced arctic traveler whose life's work has been dedicated to the study of the Eskimos.… Uqalimakkanirit
Aua: Pakak Innukshuk is a well know carver and actor based in Igloolik.… Uqalimakkanirit 
Director, Producer, Co-Writer ZACHARIAS KUNUK, president of Igloolik Isuma Productions, was nine years old when … 
