Zacharias Kunuk
Zacharias Kunuk (Inuit/CA) is a filmmaker, artist, and hunter.
Zacharias Kunuk (indigenousartsnetwork.ca)
Zacharias Kunuk, co-founder of Igloolik Isuma Productions, is both a traditional hunter and one of the world's most widely respected aboriginal film-makers, with films including Atanarjuat -The Fast Runner which won the Golder Camera at Cannes, and The Journals of Knud Rasmussen which has just been released. At the age of nine Kunuk's family gave up their nomadic lifestyle and settled in the new government town of Igloolik. In 1981, Kunuk sold three sculptures in Montreal and brought home the Arctic's first video camera to a community that did not yet have television.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Kunuk
