Leah Angutimarik, who plays Apak, is a member of Artcirq and the Aqsiit Project, which offered circus training to young people. She has participated in youth training projects in art, dance and video. “The Journals of Knud Rasmussen” is her first appearance on screen. She is currently unemployed and lives with her family in Igloolik.
I didn't expect that much success. It was the first feature film in
Inuktitut, by Inuit, and I was just aiming to see what mistakes we
would make and learn from them. Apparently we didn’t make any!
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The Journals of Knud Rasmussen takes place in Canada's remote northeastern Arctic during the early years of the 20th Century. 700 kilometres separates the trading post in Repulse Bay, at the base of Melville Peninsula, from the one at Pond's Inlet on the northern tip of Baffin Island. Between them ranges a vast uncharted wilderness whose centre is Igloolik.
Director, Producer, Co-Writer ZACHARIAS KUNUK, president of Igloolik Isuma Productions, was nine years old when … 
