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Zacharias Kunuk
Kapuivik, Nunavut, Canada
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 fi…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2025
They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit
Movie himself
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2025
Wrong Husband
Movie Director
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2024
Red Fever
Movie Self
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2021
The Shaman's Apprentice
Movie Director
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2019
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk
Movie Producer
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2019
Silakut
Movie Director
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2018
Edge of the Knife
Movie Executive Producer
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2016
Searchers
Movie Director
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2013
Uvanga
Movie Executive Producer
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2011
Inuit Cree Reconciliation
Movie Director
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2011
The National Parks Project
Movie Director
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2011
Sirmilik
Movie Director
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2010
Reel Injun
Movie Self
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2010
Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change
Movie Director
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2009
Exile
Movie Director
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2009
What Belongs to Inuit
Movie Director
More credits
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2008
Before Tomorrow
Movie Executive Producer
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2006
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
Movie Director
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2004
Kunuk Family Reunion
Movie
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2003
Shaman Stories
Movie Director
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2002
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Movie Director
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2000
My First Polar Bear
Movie Director
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1999
Nipi (Voice)
Movie Director
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1998
Bowhead!
Movie Director
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1993
Fish Traps
Movie Editor
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1991
Messages from the Past
Movie Director
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1991
Going Inland
Movie Director
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1988
Gathering Place
Movie Director
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1985
From Inuk Point of View
Movie Director
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Avaja
Movie Director
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Angiraq
Movie Director
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Qarmaq (Stone House)
Movie Director
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Qimuksik (Dog Team)
Movie Director
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Tugaliaq (Ice Blocks)
Movie Director
