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Paul Apak Angilirq (1954–1998) was a Canadian film producer and screenwriter. A cofounder and vice-president of Isuma, Canada's first Inuit media production firm, he was producer and writer of the company's 2001 feature film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner.
Nov 10, 2017 · Paul Apak Angilirq (1954-1998) was vice-president and co-founder of Isuma. Apak began his career in 1978 as a trainee in Canada's Inukshuk Project, the first project to train indigenous TV producers in remote communities. In 1981 Apak joined Inuit Broadcasting Corporation’s and in 1992 IBC honoured him with a Special Recognition Award for his ...
PAUL APAK ANGILIRQ (1954-1998) Interviewed by Nancy Wachowich, currently professor at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Sadly, Paul Apak died in December 1998, before the film was completed. … Read more
Producer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Paul Apak Angilirq was born in 1954 in Canada. Paul Apak was an editor and writer, known for Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001), Arviq: Bowhead! (2002) and Nunavut: Our Land (1995). Paul Apak died in 1998 in Canada. Born 1954. Died 1998. Add photos, demo reels. Add to list. Awards. 2 wins. Known for:
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At the dawn of the first millennium, the arrival of a mysterious shaman upsets the natural balance in a community of nomadic Inuit, resulting in the murder of the camp’s leader. Years later, power in the community begins to shift when the tribe’s two best hunters — the brothers Amaqjuaq, the Strong One (Pakak Innuksuk), and Atanarjuat, the Fast Run...
The first feature film written, produced, directed and acted by Inuit, Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) was shot on widescreen digital betacam over six months with a budget of $1.9 million. Igloolik Isuma Productions — led by writer-director Zacharias Kunuk and New York-born cinematographer Norman Cohn — had been producing award-winning, community-base...
Despite being shot on digital video, Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)is epic, even Shakespearean, in scope, culminating in an astounding extended sequence as Atanarjuat races naked across melting ice floes, pursued by the murderous Oki. An authentic recreation of an oral tale told over thousands of years, the film demystifies Indigenous stereotypes by ...
From its first screenings at the Cannes Film Festival, the film drew rave reviews. Although some critics found the opening prologue somewhat confusing, the film was still anointed by many as an instant classic. A. O. Scott of the New York Timessaid the film “is not merely an interesting document from a far-off place; it is a masterpiece… It is, by ...
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). The film was named one of the top 10 Canadian films of all timein a poll conducted by the Toronto International...
2001 Genie Awards 1. Achievement in Direction (Zacharias Kunuk) 2. Achievement in Editing (Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk, Marie-Christine Sarda) 3. Achievement in Music/Original Score (Chris Crilly) 4. Best Screenplay (Paul Apak Angilirq) 5. Best Motion Picture (Zacharias Kunuk, Norman Cohn, Paul Angilirq, Germaine Ying-Gee Wong) 6. Claude Jutra Awa...
Dec 20, 2002 · Paul Apak Angilirq. Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner Paperback – December 20, 2002. by Paul Apak Angilirq (Author) 4.7 4 ratings. See all formats and editions. Hardcover. $75.00 1 Used from $17.61 1 New from $75.00. Paperback. $45.69 9 Used from $29.99 1 Collectible from $53.02.
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Kunuk, a successful soapstone carver, joined fellow Inuit videomaker Paul Apak Angilirq (who wrote the screenplay for Atanarjuat before dying of cancer in 1998) and Cohn in the early 80s as part of the Inukshuk Project, which sought to capture Inuit ways of life on video ‘from the inside out’.
