Zacharias Kunuk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Zacharias Kunuk

director

Date of Birth: 27-Nov-1957

Place of Birth: Jens Munk Island, Nunavut, Canada

Profession: screenwriter, film director, production designer, film producer, film editor

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Zacharias Kunuk (born November 27, 1957) is a Canadian Inuk producer and director most notable for his film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, the first Canadian dramatic feature film produced entirely in Inuktitut.
He is the president and co-founder with Paul Qulitalik, Paul Apak Angilirq, and the only non-Inuit, ex-New Yorker team member, Norman Cohn, of Igloolik Isuma Productions, Canada's first independent Inuit production company.
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001), the first feature film that was entirely in Inuktitut was named as the greatest Canadian film of all time by the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival poll.