Tungijuq
2009, Canada, 7 min, 35mm
Director: Félix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphaël
Producer: Isuma Productions
Presented as part of:
Opening Night
Oct 14 2009, 7:00PM
Bloor Cinema
Internationally renowned throat singer Tanya Taqaq and filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk star in this mesmerizing film celebrating the Inuit hunting tradition. A beautifully cinematic and deeply haunting expression of a woman’s transformative journey through a barren Arctic landscape.
Igloolik Isuma Productions, Inc. 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. Isuma has produced the internationally acclaimed Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (winner of the Cannes Palme D’Or) and The Journals of Knud Rasmussen.
