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Sep 14, 2017 · The first feature film made entirely in the Inuktitut language, Zacharias Kunuk's Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner is widely considered a movie masterpiece. It remains the only Canadian film to win the ...
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Apr 24, 2015 · The film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner by Nunavut director Zacharias Kunuk is the number 1 Canadian film of all time, according to the fourth edition of Canada's All-Time Top Ten List.. Atanarjuat ...
That no doubt influenced how Mon oncle Antoine — Jutra’s bracingly honest, moving, and uneasy coming-of-age drama, which has regularly ranked the best Canadian film of all time — ended up ...
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At the dawn of the first millennium, the arrival of a mysterious shaman upsets the natural balance in a community of nomadic Inuit, resulting in the murder of the camp’s leader. Years later, power in the community begins to shift when the tribe’s two best hunters — the brothers Amaqjuaq, the Strong One (Pakak Innuksuk), and Atanarjuat, the Fast Run...
The first feature film written, produced, directed and acted by Inuit, Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) was shot on widescreen digital betacam over six months with a budget of $1.9 million. Igloolik Isuma Productions — led by writer-director Zacharias Kunuk and New York-born cinematographer Norman Cohn — had been producing award-winning, community-base...
Despite being shot on digital video, Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)is epic, even Shakespearean, in scope, culminating in an astounding extended sequence as Atanarjuat races naked across melting ice floes, pursued by the murderous Oki. An authentic recreation of an oral tale told over thousands of years, the film demystifies Indigenous stereotypes by ...
From its first screenings at the Cannes Film Festival, the film drew rave reviews. Although some critics found the opening prologue somewhat confusing, the film was still anointed by many as an instant classic. A. O. Scott of the New York Timessaid the film “is not merely an interesting document from a far-off place; it is a masterpiece… It is, by ...
Atanarjuat became the first Canadian film to win the coveted Camera d’or at Cannes and went on to receive 19 awards worldwide, as well as five Genie Awards and the Claude Jutra Award (now the Canadian Screen Award for Best First Feature). The film was named one of the top 10 Canadian films of all timein a poll conducted by the Toronto International...
2001 Genie Awards 1. Achievement in Direction (Zacharias Kunuk) 2. Achievement in Editing (Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk, Marie-Christine Sarda) 3. Achievement in Music/Original Score (Chris Crilly) 4. Best Screenplay (Paul Apak Angilirq) 5. Best Motion Picture (Zacharias Kunuk, Norman Cohn, Paul Angilirq, Germaine Ying-Gee Wong) 6. Claude Jutra Awa...
Eric Moreault, writing for La Presse, dismissed Atanarjuat's first-place finish as nonsensical, noting Mon oncle Antoine topped all previous versions. [11] John Semley of The Globe and Mail commented that the 2015 list "seems a little heavy on recent movies," but was remarkable for its diversity. [12]
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Inuktitut: ᐊᑕᓈᕐᔪᐊᑦ) is a 2001 Canadian epic film directed by Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk and produced by his company Isuma Igloolik Productions. It was the first feature film ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in the Inuktitut language. Set in the ancient past, the film retells an ...
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Jun 23, 2021 · Director Zacharias Kunuk joins Fred Fuchs and Jeffrey Bender to discuss his revolutionary film ATANARJUAT: THE FAST RUNNER (2001)Director: Zacharias KunkStar...
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