Zacharias Kunuk
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
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
27 November 1957
Place of Birth
Kapuivik, Nunavut, Canada
Also Known As
Kifutikajuk Taqaq Nujatut Attafutaluk Quatuk
MEDIA
FILMOGRAPHY
Reel Injun
2010-02-19Actor
Kunuk Family Reunion
2004-01-01Director
Red Fever
2024-05-01Actor
They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit
2025-06-18Actor, Director
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
2006-03-11Director, Producer, Production Design, Art Direction
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
2002-02-01Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk
2019-05-11Producer, Director, Writer
Messages from the Past
1991-03-01Director
From Inuk Point of View
1985-03-01Director
The Shaman's Apprentice
2021-06-14Director, Writer, Producer
The National Parks Project
2011-04-30Director
Fish Traps
1993-10-28Editor, Writer, Director
Searchers
2016-09-12Director, Producer, Writer, Editor
Wrong Husband
2025-02-16Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
Gathering Place
1988-01-01Director, Producer
Going Inland
1991-01-01Director, Writer, Producer
What Belongs to Inuit
2009-01-01Director
Exile
2009-01-01Director
Nipi (Voice)
1999-05-02Director
Silakut
2019-01-01Director
Edge of the Knife
2018-09-07Executive Producer
Sirmilik
2011-01-01Director
Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change
2010-01-01Director
Qimuksik (Dog Team)
Director
Avaja
Director
Qarmaq (Stone House)
Director
Tugaliaq (Ice Blocks)
Director
Angiraq
Director
Shaman Stories
2003-01-01Director
Bowhead!
1998-01-01Director, Producer, Screenplay, Cinematography
My First Polar Bear
2000-01-01Director, Producer, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editor
Inuit Cree Reconciliation
2011-10-09Director
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