Survey of film work

The Art Gallery of Alberta will present the work of Igloolik Isuma Productions Inc., Canada's first Inuit independent film company. ISUMA: to have an idea will run from Dec. 9 to Feb. 19, 2007.
Isuma was founded in 1990 by Zacharias Kunuk, Pauloosie Qulitalk, Norman Cohn and the late Paul Apak Angilirqu. The production company became internationally known through their breakout film Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner, a Cannes Film Festival award winner.

This year, Isuma's second major feature premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Journals of Knud Rasmussen is set in the 1922 and tells the story of when Inuit changed from Shamanism to Christianity.

Also appearing during the same time is an are exhibition entitled ASHOONA: Third Wave, New Drawings by Shuvinai Ashoona, Siassie Kenneally and Annie Pootoogook. The exhibition reveals the work of the three artists of the third generation, all grand-daughters of the famed Cape Dorset artist Pitseolak Ashoona. The Art Gallery of Alberta is located in Edmonton.