# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zacharias-kunuk
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:35:35.411Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zacharias-kunuk"
name: "Zacharias Kunuk"
slug: "zacharias-kunuk"
description: "Zacharias Kunuk is a Canadian Inuk film producer and director, best known for his film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, the first Canadian dramatic feature film produced entirely in Inuktitut with an all Indigenous cast."
tagline: "Director (born 1957)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zacharias_Kunuk_-_2025.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1957-11-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.48
  momentum:             0.5390070921985816
  historical:           12.29341466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0994348/"
    handle:    "nm0994348"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.isuma.tv/isuma-productions"
sources:
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    title: "Кунук, Захариас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "زاتشارياس كونوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zacharias Kunuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Kunuk"
    title: "Zacharias Kunuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Kunuk"
    title: "Zacharias Kunuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Kunuk"
    title: "Zacharias Kunuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "زاکارایاس کونک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Kunuk"
    title: "Zacharias Kunuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Kunuk"
    title: "Zacharias Kunuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://iu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%93%B4%E1%96%85%E1%91%B2%E1%93%95%E1%90%8A%E1%93%AF_%E1%91%AF%E1%93%84%E1%92%83"
    title: "ᓴᖅᑲᓕᐊᓯ ᑯᓄᒃ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Kunuk"
    title: "Zacharias Kunuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Kunuk"
    title: "Zacharias Kunuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Kunuk"
    title: "Zacharias Kunuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Kunuk"
    title: "Zacharias Kunuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139509"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Zacharias Kunuk"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump