From Inuk Point of View

In 1985 Zacharias Kunuk broke the race barrier at Canada Council for the Arts when his Inuktitutlanguage video From Inuk Point of View was the first work by an Inuit or Aboriginal artist deemed eligible to apply for a professional artists grant Kunuk was the videos director and producer Norman Cohn cameraman Paul Apak Angilirq editor and elder Pauloosie Qulitalik as narrator By 1990 the four partners had formed Igloolik Isuma Productions Inc to produce independent video art from an Inuit point of view The video also features footage shot by Zacharias Kunuk Paul Apak Angilirq and Simon Quassa along with narration from three other wellrespected Igloolik elders