Photo: Award-winning filmmaker Kunuk back on the land with cameras

Igloolik filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk of Kinguliit Productions is back on the snowy tundra with a film crew and actors to shoot his latest feature length film Maliglutit. Set around the turn of the 20th century, the film tells the story of a group of men who go on a hunting trip of sorts, to find women to bring home to their camp for wives. When they spy a small camp with a woman, a daughter and an elderly couple, they pounce, taking the girls and killing the elders. “There’s a lot of running,” Kunuk said in October 2014 when he was still finalizing the script and telling his actors to get in shape. Kunuk became known worldwide in 2001 for his feature film Atanarjuat which won the Camera D’Or prize at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in France. It was Canada’s top grossing release of 2002. See story later on Nunatsiaqonline.ca. (PHOTO BY AJ MESSIER)