Zacharias Kunuk

Biography

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.

Directed

1. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2002) — Director
2. The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006) — Director
3. Searchers (2016) — Director
4. The National Parks Project (2011) — Director
5. One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (2019) — Director
6. The Shaman's Apprentice (2021) — Director
7. Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change (2010) — Director
8. Messages from the Past (1991) — Director
9. From Inuk Point of View (1985) — Director
10. Wrong Husband (2025) — Director
11. Going Inland (1991) — Director
12. Gathering Place (1988) — Director
13. Fish Traps (1993) — Director
14. What Belongs to Inuit (2009) — Director
15. Exile (2009) — Director
16. Nipi (Voice) (1999) — Director
17. Silakut (2019) — Director
18. Sirmilik (2011) — Director
19. Qimuksik (Dog Team) — Director
20. Avaja — Director
21. Qarmaq (Stone House) — Director
22. Tugaliaq (Ice Blocks) — Director
23. Angiraq — Director
24. Kunuk Family Reunion (2004) — Director
25. They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit (2025) — Director
26. Shaman Stories (2003) — Director
27. Bowhead! (1998) — Director
28. My First Polar Bear (2000) — Director
29. Inuit Cree Reconciliation (2011) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Reel Injun (2010) — Self
2. Kunuk Family Reunion (2004)
3. Red Fever (2024) — Self
4. They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit (2025) — himself