Zacharias Kunuk

Zacharias Kunuk (* 1957 in camp near Kapuivik Iglulik, Nunavut ) is a Canadian film producer, director and screenwriter. He belongs to the ethnic group of the Inuit.

Life and achievements

Zacharias ( " Zach " ) Kunuk was born in 1957 in a QarmaQ at Camp Kapuivik where his living as nomads parents spent the winter. He has ten siblings. Up to the age of nine Zacharias lived with his parents Inuki and Vivi Kunuk and was raised by them in a traditional way. Here he acquired knowledge as hunting by dogsled. In order to afford the imported Canadian North since the 1950s, compulsory education episode, he and one of his brothers in 1966 to move to the Inuit settlement Iglulik; the rest of the family followed by two years later.

Money earned Zacharias Kunuk first with the carving of Serpentinskulpturen, which enabled him, in 1981 on a trip to Montreal to earn its first video camera. Between 1982 and 1991 he worked for the built in Iglulik branch of the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation ( IBC) as a cameraman, producer and branch manager. In 1990 he founded the non- Inuk Norman Cohn, an excellent cameraman, and also working as a producer at IBC Inuit Paul Apak Angilirq and Pauloosie Qulitalik the first Inuit corresponding film production companies Igloolik Isuma Productions. His feature film debut Atanarjuat - The Fast Runner The Legend (2001), the film adaptation of an Inuit legend, has been honored with numerous awards. It is the first Canadian feature film, which was written by Inuit, produced, directed and acted.

This film brought a Zacharias Kunuk around 15 prestigious awards; for example, he was honored in 2001 at the Toronto International Film Festival for the best Canadian feature film, 2001 he was awarded at the International Film Festival in Cannes Golden Camera, and 2002 he won four Genie Awards, namely the Claude Jutra Award for Best Director, the best Editing and best Picture.

Kunuk produces films, directs, writes screenplays and also acts as a production designer, art director and editor.

Isuma TV

As part of the Transmediale in February 2009 presented Zacharais Kunuk and his fellow Isuma TV, the first web portal for indigenous filmmakers.

For the makers of Isuma TV, it is a project for more self-determination, against the feeling of the loss of their own culture. The new media have a special meaning for Inuit: surfing the Internet more quickly sat down on a wider scale by than in Central Europe. The original oral history is still a part of the culture of the Inuit: 4000 years they lived as nomads from hunting, stories, and their own history, they handed down orally - until the arrival of Catholic missionaries in 1930 on the tradition of storytelling from. their own midst forges Isuma TV: Does not leave tell about, but "self- talk " in their own language, that is the motto of Isuma TV.

Filmography

Producer

  • 2001: Atanarjuat - The Fast Runner The Legend ( Atanarjuat - The Fast Runner )
  • 2006: The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

Director

Screenwriter

Production Designer

  • 2006: The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

Art Director

  • 2006: The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

Editor

  • 2001: Atanarjuat - The Fast Runner The Legend ( Atanarjuat - The Fast Runner )
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