Zacharias Kunuk
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| Zacharias Kunuk | |
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| Born | November 27, 1957 Kapuivik, Canada |
| Occupation | film director, screenwriter & producer |
Zacharias Kunuk (born 1957) in Igloolik is a Canadian Inuk producer and director most notable for his film Atanarjuat, the first Canadian dramatic feature film produced completely in Inuktitut.[1] He is the co-founder, with Norman Cohn, and president of Igloolik Isuma Productions, Canada's first independent Inuit production company.
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[edit] Career
His second film, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, is a co-production with Denmark in which he is a co-writer and co-director with Norman Cohn. It premiered on September 7, 2006, as the opening film at the Toronto International Film Festival.
In 2002, Kunuk was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
He is the son of Enoki Kunuk, a hunter who was lost for 27 days during June 2007 in the Arctic tundra.
Kunuk is the co-founder of the Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change Project, along with Ian Mauro of the University of Victoria's School of Environmental Studies. The goal of the project is to collect information from Inuit elders for a film about the Inuit perspective on the impact of climate change on Inuit culture and the environment. The Project submitted a video to the United Nations for the 2009 COP15 Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change which was presented at Denmark's National Gallery. [2]
[edit] Filmography
- The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006)
- Atanarjuat (2001)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Interview by Michelle Svenson, Film and Video Specialist, NMAI (April 1, 2002). "Zacharias Kunuk Interview - Native Networks". Smithsonian Institution. http://www.nativenetworks.si.edu/eng/rose/kunuk_z_interview.htm. Retrieved 2009-10-03.
- ^ ""I've gone from the stone age to the digital age."". Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. November 11, 2002. http://pulitzercenter.typepad.com/untold_stories/2009/11/ive-gone-from-the-stone-age-to-the-digital-age.html. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
[edit] External links
- http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009281
- Canadian Film Encyclopedia
- Zacharias Kunuk at the Internet Movie Database
- Nativenetworks
- Zacharias Kunuk profile at ascentmagazine.com.
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