Zacharias Kunuk

Biography

Zacharias Kunuk is a Canadian Inuk film producer and director born on November 27, 1957, in Kapuiviit (Jens Munk Island) on Baffin Island, Nunavut. He co-founded Igloolik Isuma Productions, Canada's first independent Inuit production company, and has written and directed the feature film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, a groundbreaking Canadian dramatic feature in Inuktitut with an all Indigenous cast. This film was named the greatest Canadian film of all time by the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival poll.