Saqpinaq Carol Kunnuk is an Inuk actress and filmmaker from Canada,Sarah Rogers, "Igloolik’s Arnait video group to premiere its next feature film in Iqaluit". Nunatsiaq News, April 15, 2014. noted for her work with both Arnait Video Productions and Isuma Studios.Sonia Gunderson, "Arnait Video Productions: Women Telling Their Own Stories". Inuit Art Quarterly, June 20, 2023.
Career She had acting roles in the films The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, Waterproof (Issaittuq), and Uvanga, and was interviewed in the 2015 documentary film Igloolik, a Real Tale.
As a filmmaker, she was an assistant director on Knud Rasmussen and Before TomorrowChris Knight, "Think back -waaay back; Movie preparation involved recreating long-ago customs". National Post, March 27, 2009. before releasing her debut documentary film, Queen of the Quest, in 2010.
In 2017, she and Zacharias Kunuk co-directed the mid-length documentary film Bowhead Whale Hunting with My Ancestors,Pat Mullen, "Review: ‘Bowhead Whale Hunting with My Ancestors’". Point of View, October 18, 2017. which won the award for Best Indigenous Language Production at the 2017 ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival.Regan Reid, "Belcourt, Jackson’s Indictment wins at imagineNATIVE". Playback, October 23, 2017. In 2019, she directed the short documentary film Ataguttaaluk: A Life to Live For.Gary Pearson, "A Story in Three Parts". Border Crossings, May 2022.
In November 2021, her short documentary film Being Prepared, which centred on how her home community of Igloolik coped with the COVID-19 pandemic, was broadcast by Uvagut TV."Nunavut filmmaker documents life in lockdown in her Igloolik home". CBC North, November 15, 2021.
Tautuktavuk (What We See), a film co-directed by and co-starring Kunnuk and Lucy Tulugarjuk, premiered in the Discovery program at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival,John Hazelton, "TIFF Discovery and Midnight Madness line-ups revealed". Screen Daily, August 3, 2022. and won the Amplify Voices Award for Best First Film.Christian Zilko, "American Fiction’ Wins People’s Choice Award at 2023 TIFF (Complete Winners List)". IndieWire, September 17, 2023.
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External links
Carol Kunuk on Qaggiavuut