Shamans, spirits and survival: Zacharias Kunuk wraps filming latest feature – Nunatsiaq News
Oct 20, 2023
Igloolik filmmaker explores Inuit mythology in ‘Wrong Husband’
From his beginnings with the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation to his groundbreaking work as a director, Zacharias Kunuk has helped push Inuit stories forward in the film industry.
Inspiration for those stories, however, comes to Kunuk from the very distant past.
“This culture fascinates me. I laid down to sleep in the igloo, counting the blocks, thinking, who figured this out?” Kunuk said, sitting at a long table at the Kingulliit Productions studio in Igloolik, last month.
A long bookcase stretches the length of the wall across from him, the shelves adorned with film props, industry awards and a collection of old video cameras from when Kunuk first began to learn his craft.
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