An archive of radio stories transmitted from the set during the making of The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, Igloolik Isuma Productions' second feature film and part of The Fast Runner Trilogy.
In 1953, Inuit families were forcibly relocated to the uninhabited and inhospitable high arctic, 1500 kilometres north of their traditional homeland of Nunavik, in northern Québec, to extend Canadian claims of sovereignty to Ellesmere Island. Inuit endured families torn apart and many years of hardship.… Read more
Filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk O.C., Officer of the Order of Canada and Isuma president and co-founder, received an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, June 5, 2008.
Filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk O.C., Officer of the Order of Canada and Isuma president and co-founder, received an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, June 5, 2008. Director of the 2001 Cannes Festival award-winner, Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, and 30 other films in the past twenty years, Dr.… Read more
Artcirq tells the story of how a group of young circus performers try to teach young Inuit to use circus to find more meaning in life and reject suicide.… Read more
Kiviaq's extraordinary life story bears testimony to the treatment Indigenous people of the Canadian Arctic have endured for generations due to the government's inhumane colonial policies.… Read more
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..
