Person
Zacharias Kunuk
Directing · Born 1957-11-27 · Kapuivik, Nunavut, Canada
Biography
Zacharias Kunuk is a Canadian Inuk film writer, director and producer, best known for writing and directing the feature film _Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner_, the first indigenous film with all indigenous cast and entirely in Inuktitut.
Known for
Gathering Place
Director
Going Inland
Director
The Shaman's Apprentice
Director
Searchers
Director
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Writer
Fish Traps
Writer
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
Director
Before Tomorrow
Executive Producer
Wrong Husband
Director
Shaman Stories
Director
Filmography
- 2025They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuithimself
- 2025Wrong HusbandDirector
- 2024Red FeverSelf
- 2021The Shaman's ApprenticeDirector
- 2019One Day in the Life of Noah PiugattukProducer
- 2019SilakutDirector
- 2018Edge of the KnifeExecutive Producer
- 2016SearchersDirector
- 2013UvangaExecutive Producer
- 2011Inuit Cree ReconciliationDirector
- 2011The National Parks ProjectDirector
- 2011SirmilikDirector
- 2010Reel InjunSelf
- 2010Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate ChangeDirector
- 2009ExileDirector
- 2009What Belongs to InuitDirector
- 2008Before TomorrowExecutive Producer
- 2006The Journals of Knud RasmussenDirector
- 2004Kunuk Family Reunion
- 2003Shaman StoriesDirector
- 2002Atanarjuat: The Fast RunnerWriter
- 2000My First Polar BearDirector
- 1999Nipi (Voice)Director
- 1998Bowhead!Director
- 1993Fish TrapsWriter
- 1991Messages from the PastDirector
- 1991Going InlandDirector
- 1988Gathering PlaceDirector
- 1985From Inuk Point of ViewDirector
- —Qimuksik (Dog Team)Director
- —AvajaDirector
- —Qarmaq (Stone House)Director
- —Tugaliaq (Ice Blocks)Director
- —AngiraqDirector
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