Kunuk gets Native American film honours

Zacharias Kunuk’s documentary film Atanarjuat was screened in Boston this week, where Kunak received the first-ever Sun Hill award for excellence in Native American filmmaking from the Harvard Film Institute.

Also shown at the awards were Kunuk’s most recent documentary, “Shaman’s Stories,” as well as an animated film by his sister, Mary Kunuk, and the opening episode from the television series, “Nunavut.”

Kunuk and cinematographer Norman Cohn also discussed their work and that of other Isuma-Igloolik filmmakers.