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.
Acting (2 movies)
Directing (24 movies)
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
2006
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
2002
Messages from the Past
1991
From Inuk Point of View
1985
The Shaman's Apprentice
2021
The National Parks Project
2011
Searchers
2016
Wrong Husband
2025
Going Inland
1991
Gathering Place
1988
Fish Traps
1993
What Belongs to Inuit
2009
Exile
2009
Nipi (Voice)
1999
Silakut
2019
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk
2019
Sirmilik
2011
Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change
2010
Kunuk Family Reunion
2004
They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit
2025
Shaman Stories
2003
Bowhead!
1998
My First Polar Bear
2000
Inuit Cree Reconciliation
2011
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Gathering Place | 1988 | Producer |
| Going Inland | 1991 | Producer |
| Going Inland | 1991 | Writer |
| Fish Traps | 1993 | Writer |
| Bowhead! | 1998 | Producer |
| Bowhead! | 1998 | Screenplay |
| My First Polar Bear | 2000 | Producer |
| My First Polar Bear | 2000 | Screenplay |
| Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner | 2002 | Writer |
| Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner | 2002 | Producer |
| The Journals of Knud Rasmussen | 2006 | Producer |
| Searchers | 2016 | Writer |
| Searchers | 2016 | Producer |
| Edge of the Knife | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk | 2019 | Producer |
| One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk | 2019 | Writer |
| The Shaman's Apprentice | 2021 | Writer |
| The Shaman's Apprentice | 2021 | Producer |
| Wrong Husband | 2025 | Screenplay |
| Wrong Husband | 2025 | Executive Producer |