About the Production Team

In 1981, Kunuk sold three sculptures in Montreal and brought home the arctic's first video camera. As director in the Isuma production team Kunuk's credits include the short dramas "Qaggiq (Gathering Place)" 1989, "Nunaqpa (Going Inland)" 1991, "Saputi (Fish Traps)" 1993 and documentaries "Nipi (Voice)" 1999, "Nanugiurutiga (My First Polar Bear)" 2001 and "Kunuk Family Reunion" 2004. Isuma's 13-part series "Nunavut (Our Land)" 1995 was broadcast on Bravo! and selected for exhibition at Dokumenta 11 in 2002.

Isuma’s collective work for the past twenty years has been showcased at numerous festivals and museums in sixteen countries with personal presentations at National Gallery of Canada, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, among many others. He is presently completing his latest documentary, "Kiviaq versus Canada," set to air on The History Channel/Canada in the fall. Kunuk is winner of the National Arts Award, National Aboriginal Achievement Award and in 2005 was awarded the Order of Canada.

Norman Cohn is secretary-treasurer and co-founder of Igloolik Isuma's collective. Living since 1985 both in Igloolik and Montreal, Cohn developed with Zacharias Kunuk, elder Pauloosie Qulitalik and the late Paul Apak, Isuma's signature style of "re-lived" cultural drama, combining the authenticity of modern video with the ancient art of Inuit storytelling. Has been producer and director of photography for "Atanarjuat The Fast Runner," "Nunavut (Our Land)" and the rest of Isuma's collective videography. Before coming to Igloolik Cohn was a widely exhibited video artist. The solo exhibition, Norman Cohn: Portraits, opened in 1983 at Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery and other Canadian museums, and Cohn's 1987 experimental feature documentary "Quartet for Deafblind" was selected for Dokumenta 7. Winner of a 1990 Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous Canada Council Awards, Cohn was co-winner with Kunuk of the 1994 Bell Canada Award for Outstanding Achievement in Video Art.

Co-Producer Vibeke Vogel’s interest in video art led her to the position of managing the Video Gallery in Copenhagen (1989-92), where she built up the gallery's collection of video art and also produced a number of festivals, exhibitions and workshops about art and the new media.

She has directed and produced documentaries, but also music videos and interactive media, among them award winning "Talk Like Whales," "8 Minutes Grandma" and "The Collectors". She joined Barok in August of 2000. Among the films she has produced at the company are Max Kestner´s award winning animated documentary "Max By Chance," Anne Wivel's feature length documentary "The Land of Human Beings" and the dance film series "Moving North." She is a graduate of the Department of Film and Media, at Copenhagen University, 1989.

In the autumn of 2006, Vibeke Vogel is launching the new company Palomar Productions together with Elise Lund Larsen. The aim of the company is to produce innovative and original documentary and fiction films for an international audience.

Co-Producer Elise Lund Larsen completed her education at The National Film School of Denmark in the summer of 2003 by producing the film "The Pact," written and directed by Heidi Maria Faisst, which was selected for the Cannes Festival's competition for film school productions and the short film competition at Sundance 2004. Elise joined Barok Film right after the Film School. Among others, she produced Max Kestner's award winning animated documentary, "Max By Chance", "The Silk Route" a feature film directed by the highly-acclaimed director, Jytte Rex, and post produced, Anne Wivel's feature length documentary, "The Land of Human Beings."

She has also produced several documentaries to be released in autumn 2006. In the autumn of 2006, Elise Lund Larsen is launching the new company Palomar Productions together with Vibeke Vogel.