Keewatin Region, NU, Canada

Here's our new project video trailer. It's a short summary of some of the incredible stories we've been hearing over our past month of filming in Pangnirtung, Resolute Bay and Iqaluit.

First interview in a series of short segments covering Nunavut's Inuit Language Protection Act

Filmmaker: Isuma

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www.isuma.tv

Year of Production: 2009

Country: Canada

Inuit Circumpolar Conference

Year of Production: 2008

Country: Canada

A video of a lesson using the ‘Exploring Inuit Culture Curriculum’ of Isuma. Bringing Inuit culture into primary schools for the International Polar Year, the EICC is a multi-media unit for grades 4-6 about Inuit culture, the Arctic and Canada’s newest territory, Nunavut.… En savoir plus

A video of a lesson using the ‘Exploring Inuit Culture Curriculum’ of Isuma. Bringing Inuit culture into primary schools for the International Polar Year, the EICC is a multi-media unit for grades 4-6 about Inuit culture, the Arctic and Canada’s newest territory, Nunavut.… En savoir plus

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. 

A group of Nunavut elders travel to five museums in North America to see and identify artifacts, tools and clothing collected from their Inuit ancestors.

Inuit Piqutingit (What Belongs to Inuit), Igloolik Isuma Productions, Kivalliq Inuit Association 2009, Producers Bernadette Dean, Katarina Soukup, Zacharias Kunuk. English and Inuktut w/Eng s-t.

Funny, fascinating, behind the scenes view by Greenland filmmaker Kenneth Rasmussen.

In June 2003, Cannes prize-winner Zacharias Kunuk's family gathered at their traditional home camp site of Siuraajuk, to share stories and honor the ancestors who came before them: a wedding; a burial; messages from the past.

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An aqtuqsi is a dream from which one must wake up, a paralyzing nightmare. "I decided to put my aqtuqsi in video. It's so interesting because it is not a nightmare or a regular dream: an aqtuqsi is something that can paralyse you when you're sleeping."

Filmmaker: Mary Kunuk

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In this computer animated work, Mary Kunuk explores stories recalled from her own childhood. As she said, "Recording them on video is my way of keeping them alive." Stories told by Madeline Ivalu.

Filmmaker: Mary Kunuk

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In 1994, fulfilling the wish of 94 year-old Noah Piugattuk to taste whale-skin maqtaq once again before he passes away, a group of Igloolik hunters illegally catches a bowhead whale after years of government prohibition. This event which sparks a legal controversy, the hunters are charged, government policy is resisted, then changed..