Zacharias Kunuk
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- November 27, 1957, Kapuivik, Nunavut, Canada
- Movies
- 28
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.
Best-Known Movies
6.8
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
2002
7.0
Reel Injun
2010
5.3
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
2006
6.8
Searchers
2016
7.5
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk
2019
4.0
The National Parks Project
2011
7.0
The Shaman's Apprentice
2021
6.0
Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change
2010
Red Fever
2024
Fish Traps
1993
Filmography
| 2025 | They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit | himself |
| 2024 | Red Fever | Self |
| 2010 | Reel Injun | Self |
| 2004 | Kunuk Family Reunion |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2025 | They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit | Director |
| 2025 | Wrong Husband | Director, Screenplay |
| 2021 | The Shaman's Apprentice | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2019 | One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk | Producer, Director, Writer |
| 2019 | Silakut | Director |
| 2016 | Searchers | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2011 | Inuit Cree Reconciliation | Director |
| 2011 | The National Parks Project | Director |
| 2011 | Sirmilik | Director |
| 2010 | Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change | Director |
| 2009 | What Belongs to Inuit | Director |
| 2009 | Exile | Director |
| 2006 | The Journals of Knud Rasmussen | Director, Producer |
| 2004 | Kunuk Family Reunion | Director |
| 2003 | Shaman Stories | Director |
| 2002 | Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2000 | My First Polar Bear | Director, Producer, Screenplay |
| 1999 | Nipi (Voice) | Director |
| 1998 | Bowhead! | Director, Producer, Screenplay |
| 1993 | Fish Traps | Writer, Director |
| 1991 | Messages from the Past | Director |
| 1991 | Going Inland | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 1988 | Gathering Place | Director, Producer |
| 1985 | From Inuk Point of View | Director |
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