Igloolik Isuma Productions Inc : Igloolik Isuma Productions, Inc. was incorporated in January 1990 as Canada's first Inuit independent production company. Isuma (the word Isuma means "to think") 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 now Internet - 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. Isuma's productions include: dramas Qaggiq (Gathering Place, 1988), Nunaqpa (Going Inland, 1990), and Saputi (Fish Traps, 1993); the 13 part dramatic TV series Nunavut (Our Land, 1994-95); the first Aboriginal-language Canadian feature film based on a historical legend, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (1999); the television documentaries Artcirq (2001), Kunuk Family Reunion (2003), Urban Inuk (2005), and Kiviaq vs. Canada (2006); and the Canada-Denmark co-produced feature The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2005), which opened the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. Its third feature, Before Tomorrow, written and directed by Igloolik's Arnait Video Productions women's collective, was screened in World Cinema Competition at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. In 2008, Isuma launched IsumaTV, the world's first website for Indigenous media art. In 2012, Isuma produced Digital Indigenous Democracy, an internet network to inform and consult Inuit in low-bandwidth communities facing development of the Baffinland Iron Mine and other resource projects; and in 2014, produced My Father's Land, a non-fiction feature about what took place during this intervention. Recent projects include the feature drama, Maliglutit (Searchers), the TV series, Hunting With My Ancestors, and the world's first Haida-language feature film, SGaawaay K'uuna (Edge of the Knife), named one of "Canada's Top 10" films by the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Most recently, Kunuk, Cohn and the 30-year Isuma media art project represented Canada at the 2019 Venice Biennale, and shared new work at the 2019 Toronto Biennial. Their newest feature, One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won "Best Canadian Film" at the 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival.
