ISUMA
Isuma Distribution International Inc. (Igloolik Isuma Productions, Inc. at the time) was incorporated in January 1990 as Canada's first Inuit independent production company. Isuma is 75% Inuit-owned. The founding shareholders are Zacharias Kunuk (President), Paul Apak Angilirq (Vice-President), Pauloosie Qulitalik (Chairman), and Norman Cohn (Secretary-Treasurer). Paul Apak passed away in December 1998. Isuma’s headquarters are in Igloolik, Nunavut, with a southern office in Montreal and international representation in New York.
Isuma's mission is to produce independent community-based media – films, TV and new media - to preserve and enhance Inuit culture and language; to create jobs and economic development in Igloolik and Nunavut; and to tell authentic Inuit stories to Inuit and non-Inuit audiences worldwide.
IsumaTV is an independent online interactive network of Inuit and Indigenous multimedia. IsumaTV uses the power and immediacy of the Web to bring people together to tell stories and support change.
Our tools enable Indigenous people to express reality in their own voices: views of the past, anxieties about the present and hopes for a more decent and honorable future. Our goal is to recognize and respect diverse ways of experiencing our world, and honor those differences as a human strength.
IsumaTV uses new networking technology to build a new era of communication and exchange among Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and communities around the globe.
Digital Indigenous Democracy (2012-14), the CMF Experimental Fund $1M project to support multimedia "Inform and Consult" by Inuit in the 2012 Baffinland Iron Mine environmental impact hearings. DID was produced by Isuma Distribution International and was the artistic subject of the 2015 film, Attatama Nunanga: My Father's Land, co-directed by Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn.
DID produced 22 call-in radio shows and about 50 video interviews about mining that were introduced as a Formal Intervention into the 2012 Final Public Hearings and uploaded to the DID website www.isuma.ca/DID/humanrights.
Artist Code: 219
Videography
2023, 82:00 minutes, Inuktitut with English or French subtitles
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk
2019, 113:00 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut and English (available with English, French, or Spanish Subtitles)
SGAAWAAY K'UUNA, Edge of the Knife
2018, 100:00 minutes, colour, Haida, with English or French subtitles
Hunting With My Ancestors: Walrus Hunting Training Video
2018, 32:00 minutes, colour, Inuktitut with English subtitles
Hunting With My Ancestors , Walrus Hunting Training Video
2018, 32:00 minutes, colour, Inuktitut with English subtitles
Hunting With My Ancestors Episode 7: Caribou Hunt With Peter Suwaksiork
2018, 32:27 minutes, colour, Inuktitut
Hunting With My Ancestors Episode 6: Seal Pup Hunt
2018, 55:29 minutes, colour, Inuktitut
Hunting With My Ancestors Episode 4: Kivitoo - What They Thought of Us
2018, 43:11 minutes, colour, Inuktitut
Hunting With My Ancestors Episode 4: Kivitoo - What They Thought of Us
2018, 43:11 minutes, colour, Inuktitut
Hunting With My Ancestors Episode 3: Dog Team Bear Hunt
2018, 29:58 minutes, colour, Inuktitut
Hunting With My Ancestors Episode 2: Net Fishing Under the Ice
2018, 29:59 minutes, colour, Inuktitut
2016, 94:00 minutes, colour, Inuktitut (with English or French subtitles)
Attatama Nunanga (My Father's Land)
2015, 163:00 minutes, colour, Inuktitut with English subtitles
2015, 90:00 minutes, colour, Inuktitut only /no subtitles
ISUMA INUIT CLASSIC COLLECTION: 1987-2009
2015, colour, Inuktitut, French & English subtitles
2013, 46:34 minutes, colour, Inuktitut and Cree with English subtitles
2012, 30:00 minutes, colour, Inuktitut with English Subtites
Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change (Le savoir inuit et les changes climatiques)
2010, 54:00 minutes, colour, Inuktitut, with English or French subtitles
2009, 07:23 minutes, colour, No dialogue
2009, 46:45 minutes, colour, Inuktitut w English Subtitles
2008, 92:47 minutes, colour, Inuktitut, w/ English subtitles available
2007, 45:00 minutes, colour, Inuktitut
Unikkaat Sivunittinnit (Messages from the Past) CD
2007, colour
Atanarjuat the Fast Runner (Soundtrack CD)
2007, colour
2007, colour
Exploring Inuit Culture Curriculum Gr. 4-6
2007, colour
2006, 08:47 minutes, colour, English and Inuktitut
Inuit Piqutingit (What Belongs to Inuit)
2006, 49:00 minutes, colour, Inuktitut with English subtitles
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
2006, 112:00 minutes, colour, Inuktitut, w English subtitles, w/ French subtitles
2006, 46:49 minutes, colour, English
2005, 48:00 minutes, colour, Inuktitut with English, French subtitles
2004, 48:00 minutes, colour, Inuktitut with English, French subtitles
2003, 52:00 minutes, colour, Inuktitut with English subtitles
Atanarjuat the Fast Runner (companion book)
2001, colour
2001, 161:00 minutes, colour, Inuktitut, English subtitles
2001, 52:00 minutes, colour, Inuktitut w English subtitles only
2001, 52:00 minutes, colour, Inuktitut w English subtitles
Nanugiurutiga (My First Polar Bear)
2000, 48:00 minutes, colour, Inuktitut with English subtitles
1999, 51:00 minutes, colour, Inuktitut w English subtitles
1998, 52:00 minutes, colour, Inuktitut w English subtitles
Episode 13: Quviasukvik (Happy Day)
1995, 28:50 minutes, colour, Inuktitut w English or French subtitles
1995, 28:50 minutes, colour, Inuktitut w English or French subtitles
Episode 11: Tuktuliaq (Caribou Hunt)
1995, 28:50 minutes, colour, Inuktitut w English or French subtitles
Episode 10: Qaisut (Polar Bear Island)
1995, 28:50 minutes, colour, Inuktitut w English or French subtitles
Episode 9: Aiviaq (Walrus Hunt)
1995, 28:50 minutes, colour, Inuktitut w English or French subtitles
Episode 8: Avamuktulik (Fish Swimming Back and Forth)
1995, 28:50 minutes, colour, Inuktitut w English or French subtitles
Episode 7: Qulangisi (Seal Pups)
1995, 28:50 minutes, colour, Inuktitut w English or French subtitles
1995, 28:50 minutes, colour, Inuktitut with English or French subtitles
1995, 28:50 minutes, colour, Inuktitut with English or French subtitles
Episode 4: Tugaliaq (Ice Blocks)
1995, 28:50 minutes, colour, Inuktitut with English or French subtitles
Episode 3: Qarmaq (Stone House)
1995, 28:50 minutes, colour, Inuktitut with English or French subtitles
1994, 28:50 minutes, colour, Inuktitut with English or French subtitles
Episode 1: Qimuksik (Dog Team) - Nunavut
1994, 28:50 minutes, colour, Inuktitut with English or French subtitles
1993, 30:30 minutes, colour, Inuktitut with English or French subtitles
Nunaqpa (Going Inland) (Marcher dans les terres)
1991, 58:15 minutes, colour, Inuktitut with English or French subtitles
Qaggiq (Gathering Place) (Lieu de Rassemblement)
1989, 58:00 minutes, colour, Inuktitut (with English or French subtitles)
Critical Writing
by . St. John's: Memorial University Press, 2022.