Zacharias Kunuk

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1957-11-27 (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.

Production

2006

The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

as Production Design

2006

1991

1993

Fish Traps

as Editor

1993

Fish Traps

as Writer

2016

Searchers

as Director

2016

Searchers

as Producer

2016

Searchers

as Writer

2016

Searchers

as Editor

-

Wrong Husband

as Director

1988

Gathering Place

as Director

1991

Going Inland

as Director

1993

Fish Traps

as Director

2009

2009

Exile

as Director

1999

Nipi (Voice)

as Director

2019

Silakut

as Director

2018

Edge of the Knife

as Executive Producer

2011

Sirmilik

as Director

1991

Going Inland

as Writer

1991

Going Inland

as Producer

1988

Gathering Place

as Producer

-

Wrong Husband

as Screenplay

-

Wrong Husband

as Executive Producer

-

Avaja

as Director

-

Angiraq

as Director

2004

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