Director / Ilitsersuisoq:
ZACHARIAS KUNUK (Executive Producer/Producer/Director/Co-Writer/Editor)
is the co-founder Igloolik Isuma Productions Inc. In addition to the feature Atanarjuat The Fast Runner (2001 Cannes Camera d’Or, “Best Canadian Film of all-time” 2015 Toronto International Film Festival Film Critic Poll), Kunuk has directed more than 30 documentaries and feature films including Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, Maliglutit (Searchers), and the Oscar-shortlisted animation film Angakusajaujuq (The Shaman’s Apprentice). His 2019 film One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk premiered as the main art piece of the Canadian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, where Kunuk and the Isuma Collective were Canada’s representative artists. In 2003, he founded the distribution company Isuma Distribution International, to allow Inuit audiences better access to Inuktitut film and video and in 2008, the website www.isuma.tv. In 2015, he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada, and in 2019, an Officer of the Order of Nunavut.
ZACHARIAS KUNUK
(Ingerlatsinermi naammassititsisoq/Ingerlatsisoq/Ilitsersuisoq/Allaqataasoq/Killuisoq)
Igloolik Isuma Productions Inc.-imik pilersitseqataasuuvoq. Ilanngullugu Atanarjuat The Fast Runner (2001 Cannes Camera d’Or,”Best Canadian Film of all-time” 2015 Toronto International Film Festival Film Critic Poll), Kunuk filminik pisimasuinnik tunngavilinnik 30’t sinnerlugit ilitsersuisuusimavoq, ilanngullugit Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, Maliglutit (Searchers), kiisalu Oscarimut shortlistigaasimasoq filmi titartagaq Angakusajaujuq (The Shaman’s Apprentice/Angakkup ilinniartuutaa). 2019-imi filmiliaa One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk Canadian Pavilion 58th Venice Biennaleimi qitiusumik eqqumiitsuliatut takutinneqaqqaarsimavoq, Kunuk Isuma Collectiveilu Canada sinnerlugu eqqumiitsuliortutut. 2003-mi Isuma Distribution International siammartitsivik/nassiussuivik pilersippaa, Inuit Inuktitut filminik videonillu pitsaanerusumik atuisinnaalernissaannik periarfisseerusulluni, 2015-imi an Officer of the Order of Canadami toqqarneqarpoq www.isuma.tv-mi nittartakkami, kiisalu 2019-imi an Officer of the Order of Nunavut-imi toqqarneqarluni.
