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 and international representation in New York.