Atanarjuat Made the Impossible Possible for Indigenous Filmmakers
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2017
- The director and star of the award-winning film sat down with The Filmmakers to look back at their collaboration.
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16 years ago, Zacharias Kunuk made history several times over with his film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. It was the first feature film ever in the Inuktitut language, the first Indigenous film submitted by Canada to the Academy Awards and the first - and, to this day, only - Canadian film to win the Camera d'Or for best first feature at the Cannes Film festival.
Kunuk and the fast runner himself Natar Ungalaaq sat down on the latest episode of The Filmmakers to discuss the movie and its legacy as a landmark for Indigenous filmmaking and one of the most celebrated Canadian films of all time. They also looked back to that fateful day in May 2011 when it won the Camera d'Or.
"I thought it was normal," Kunuk laughs. "I thought every Canadian came to Cannes and won something, that that's just part of the flow. That's what I thought."
Ungalaaq was in his office in Igoolik when Kunuk called him to let him know about the prize.
"'We won,'" Ungalaaq recalls Kunuk saying. "And I said, 'What are we trying to win?' And then Zach said, 'We won, the film...in Cannes!' And I said, 'Oh, OK!' [laughs] I wasn't really focused on trying to win and all that."
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"Atanarjuat" is a great film. I bought the DVD almost 15 years ago here in Germany. It's a great story and I love the way it was made, with that emphasis on authentic Inuit culture before European contact. Mostly well-acted, despite the fact that most actors were either laymen/minor local theatre actors. Very good. For me as a German it was a good "window" into old Inuit culture, storytelling and mythology. A big thanks to everyone involved!
Boy did this movie stay in my memory over the years. I think about it often. Great story. Haunting.
Mind blown by this film. Solidarity with arctic artists and peoples.
I hope we see more indigenous filmmakers in the future!
Usually, Canadian films are "not very good", but this one is EXCELLENT!
One the finest movies of my life that I was able to watch. Coming from a land of movies ( India ) The Fast Runner held my attention throughout the movie time.
I saw this film years ago as a teenager. It was mind opening, and a beautiful insight to a culture I knew little about.
Saw this on cable TV in Vancouver - could not turn away. Different pace, different, language, different situations from movies we see normally. I need to see this movie again.
Continues to be an inspiration...
I am half Inupiaq and half white from northwest Alaska. The Fast Runner movie makes me feel more at home with my heritage, but same time I speak English, also my children. only the elders speak Inupiaq, which are very few now days. it's hard to learn it because of how much English is spoken in my community. perhaps it will come back, Lord willing.
OMG RUclips recommendations was spot on! Thanks for this gem
love the movie!!!! awesome job!!!!
I’m mixed Inuit, Scottish, and French, I’m very into my meti heritage but it is so cool to see the pure Inuit side depicted in this film and also disheartening to know I would instantly die in that environment lol
Awesome ‼️
I am inuit
and i stopped filming movies worldwide years ago.
These people almost lookalike Sherpa and Tibetan.
Great movie. It's not "Canadian", though, imo, it's Native.
It is Canadian. Real Canadian, ethnically Canadian. Not "settler Canadian", not "genocidal colon Canadian", not "euro-supremacist and ethnocentrist Canadian"; it's Canadian.
The name of the country itself, though not Inuktut, comes from Iroquois, which is an American language as Inuktut is, and partly Canadian.
@@nastatchia Settler canadian is real canadian. Native is something else entirely.
colonizer interviewing the colonized - interesting to read the dynamics of this interaction
Awesome ‼️
Awesome ‼️