Zacharias Kunuk

Born in Kapuivikn Nunavut, Canada, in 1957. In 2001, he won the Camera d'Or at Cannes for his first feature Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. President and co-founder of Igloolik Isuma Productions, Canada's first Inuit-owned independent production company. His feature The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, co-directed with Norman Cohn, opened the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006. He says that his professional education in filmmaking started and ended with an instruction given to him that he might recharge his camera battery.

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