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Zacharias
Kunuk
, OC, ON
Credit: Courtesy Isuma Distribution International Inc.
Zacharias
Kunuk
, OC, ON
Medium:
film
Artistic Community:
Iglulik, NU
Date of Birth:
Artists may have multiple birth years listed as a result of when and where they were born. For example, an artist born in the early twentieth century in a camp outside of a community centre may not know/have known their exact date of birth and identified different years.
1957
Work
Zacharias Kunuk
(Iglulik)
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (2019)
Credit: Courtesy Isuma Distribution International Inc. Photo Levi Uttak
Inuit Art Foundation Artist Spotlight: Zacharias Kunuk
Biography
Zacharias Kunuk, OC, ON is a filmmaker, sculptor and visual artist based in Iglulik (Igloolik), NU. Kunuk has redefined filmmaking in Canada and has been at the forefront of innovative use of broadcast technology in the North. He is perhaps best known for his debut feature film Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) from 2001, the first Canadian feature film produced entirely in Inuktitut. Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) won six Genie Awards and was ranked the No. 1 Canadian film of all time in a 2015 poll conducted by the Toronto International Film Festival. He is the co-founder of Isuma Productions, the first independent Inuit-led film production company in Canada. He continues to create groundbreaking work in the Canadian and Inuit film industries.
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Publications
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Title
Year
Author
Historical Blinds and SITElines: Unsettling the Biennial with Candice Hopkins
Winter 2019
Jenn Jackson
Channel Changers
November 2019
Jacob Boon
Kunuk’s latest effort earns ‘Best Canadian Film’ in Vancouver
October 6, 2019
Derek Neary
Exhibitions
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Name
Year
Gallery
Qaggiq: Gathering Place
Sept 18 - Nov 30, 2019
Art Museum at the University of Toronto - University of Toronto Art Centre
Isuma
May - Nov 2019
Canada Pavilion
...Here Are Your Instructions : Aboriginal Film and Video
1994
Mendel Art Gallery
Achievements
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Achievement
Year
Organization
Order of Nunavut
2019
Nunavut Legislative Assembly
Silver for One of a Kind Storytelling
2018
National Magazine Awards
Technicolor Clyde Gilmour Award
2017
Toronto Film Critics Association
Filmography
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Title
Release Date
Role
Bowhead Whale Hunting With my Ancestors
2018
Director
SGaawaay K'uuna (Edge of the Knife)
2018
Executive Producer
Kivitoo: What They Thought of Us
2018
Director
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