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acknowledgments Zacharias Kunuk, Norman Cohn, Pauloosie Qulitalik, Pacome Qulaut, and other Isuma producers helped me in personal and professional ways as I gathered the information presented in this book. I am grateful for their patience and assistance. Other people in Igloolik were extraordinarily helpful as well, especially John and Carolyn MacDonald, Leah Otak, Julie Ivalu, and Jake Kadluk. My experience and my understanding were enhanced by all of you. note I have previously published a book about Igloolik Isuma Productions , titled Isuma: Inuit Video Art. That book, published by McGill– Queens University Press, includes a chapter on The Fast Runner. It also contains material about the people of Isuma and other facets important to this story. While the writing for this book is original, some of the information is necessarily similar to the information in Isuma: Inuit Video Art. Also, The Fast Runner was shot in digital format and then converted to film for distribution. It was then released again in digital formats, including dvd, for home viewing. So, despite the distinct and significant differences between film and video technologies, in what follows I refer to The Fast Runner and other Isuma products as “films,” “movies,” or “videos” fairly interchangeably. Finally, I should point out that the English-alphabet spelling of Inuit words and names varies widely. When quoting material from printed sources, I have kept the spelling used by those sources, even when that spelling varies from other uses elsewhere in the book. ix ...
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