Zacharias Kunuk

    Known For

    Directing

    Birthday

    November 27, 1957 (68 years old)

    Place of Birth

    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.

    Known For

    • Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

      Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

      2002

    • Edge of the Knife

      Edge of the Knife

      2018

    • The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

      The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

      2006

    • Searchers

      Searchers

      2016

    • The National Parks Project

      The National Parks Project

      2011

    • One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk

      One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk

      2019

    • The Shaman's Apprentice

      The Shaman's Apprentice

      2021

    • Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change

      Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change

      2010

    • Fish Traps

      Fish Traps

      1993

    • Wrong Husband

      Wrong Husband

      2025

    • Going Inland

      Going Inland

      1991

    • Gathering Place

      Gathering Place

      1988

    • What Belongs to Inuit

      What Belongs to Inuit

      2009

    • Exile

      Exile

      2009

    • Nipi (Voice)

      Nipi (Voice)

      1999