Fourteen years after its release, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner has stood the test of time, earning first place in an all-time top 10 list of Canadian films. Here’s TIFF’s latest all-time top 10 list of Canadian films: 1. 4. Directed by Zacharias Kunuk. The telling of an Inuit legend of an evil spirit causing strife in the community and one warrior's endurance and battle of its menace. Go to Nunavuttenders.ca to download new procurement opportunities. Kunuk’s film cost only about $1.9 million to produce and took in nearly $6 million in box office receipts. celebration of Canadian cinema on April 22, 2020. (FILE PHOTO). “It remains a truly important and glorious film”, Zach Kunuk directs a scene from Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, now listed as the best Canadian film of all time. However, she loves the good-natured Atanarjuat (Ungalaaq), a fast runner and excellent hunter. 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). Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner was filmed and set in Nunavut. ), Director, Strategic Communications, and more…, Coordinator, Regulations and Operations Trainee, and more…, Community Social Service Worker, and more…. Set in Igloolik, in Nunavut, this is "a powerful drama, not a documentary," reminds the director Kunuk. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, 2001, Zacharias Kunuk My Winnipeg, 2007, Guy Maddin Stories We Tell, 2012, Sarah Polley Kunuk left Cannes with the Caméra d’Or, or Golden Camera award for the best first feature film shown at Cannes that year. It is unlike anything most audiences will have ever seen, and yet it tells a universal story.”— Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, Paul Apak Angilirq, Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk, Germaine Ying Gee Wong, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Lucy Tulugarjuk, Natar Ungalaaq, Sylvia Ivalu. The film was named one of the top 10 Canadian films of all timein a poll conducted by the Toronto International Film Festival in 2004, and No. Mon Oncle Antoine, 1971, Claude Jutra Atanarjuat won 20 awards, including eight Genies and the Caméra d’Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. “I am not surprised that The Fast Runner has been a box office hit in its opening engagements. “An award winner at Cannes, it remains a truly important and glorious film,” critic Jesse Wente said in the spring 2015 issue of Montage, a trade magazine published by the Directors Guild of Canada. Based on an ancient Inuit legend, Atanarjuat is an epic tale of love, betrayal and revenge. 9. Directed by Zacharias Kunuk from a script written by the late Paul Apak of Igloolik, with cinematography by Norman Cohn, Atanarjuat was released May 13, 2001 at the Cannes Film Festival. He’s the first and only Canadian director to win a Caméra d’Or award. #CanFilmDay. 6. Copyright © 1995-2020 Nortext Publishing Corporation (Iqaluit) and may not be reprinted for commercial publication in print, or any other media, without the permission of the publisher. Conducted by TIFF, the group that runs the Toronto International Film Festival, the top 10 list is based on a poll conducted among international film industry types and academics. 8. And in the fourth edition of the poll, done in 2015, Atanarjuat unseated Claude Jutra’s French-language classic from 1971, Mon Oncle Antoine, which ranked number one in the 1984, 1993 and 2004 editions of the TIFF poll.

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