Directing · b. 1957 · Kapuivik, Nunavut, Canada

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.

Directed
Wrong Husband 2025 They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit 2025 The Shaman's Apprentice 2021 Silakut 2019 One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk 2019 Searchers 2016 The National Parks Project 2011 Sirmilik 2011 Inuit Cree Reconciliation 2011 Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change 2010 Exile 2009 What Belongs to Inuit 2009 The Journals of Knud Rasmussen 2006 Kunuk Family Reunion 2004 Shaman Stories 2003 Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner 2002 My First Polar Bear 2000 Nipi (Voice) 1999 Bowhead! 1998 Fish Traps 1993 Messages from the Past 1991 Going Inland 1991 Gathering Place 1988 From Inuk Point of View 1985
Acting
Red Fever Self 2024 Reel Injun Self 2010
Other Credits
Edge of the Knife Executive Producer 2018 Uvanga Executive Producer 2013 Before Tomorrow Executive Producer 2008
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