Atanarjuat  ’The Fast Runner” (2001)

"The Fast Runner" stars Natar Ungalaaq (Atanarjuat) and Pakkak Innukshuk (Amaqjuaq).

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Talking Feather is proud to have the Inuit as part of our family. They are the first nation to appear in our Alaskan Nations group. For those of you who may not know of the Inuit film  Atanarjuat “Fast Runner” (2001) it was created by the Inuits with “all” Inuit actors.

The story is an Inuit legend about an evil spirit that enters a small Inuit village, and causes discord among the members. The warrior (Atanarjuat) battles this evil, and has to decide whether to follow the path of good or evil to defeat the evil. The tribal members endure many conflicts within the family (love, jealousy, hate, battles)

The following information is from the Inuit website:

The beautiful Atuat (Sylvis Ivalu) from Fast Runner

“Igloolik is a community of 1200 people located on a small island in the north Baffin region of the Canadian Arctic with archeological evidence of 4000 years of continuous habitation. Throughout these millennia, with no written language, untold numbers of nomadic Inuit renewed their culture and traditional knowledge for every generation entirely through storytelling.

Our film Atanarjuat is part of this continuous stream of oral history carried forward into the new millennium through a marriage of Inuit storytelling skills and new technology.

Atanarjuat is Canada’s first feature-length fiction film written, produced, directed, and acted by Inuit. An exciting action thriller set in ancient Igloolik, the film unfolds as a life-threatening struggle between powerful natural and supernatural characters. Atanarjuat gives international audiences a more authentic view of Inuit culture and oral tradition than ever before, from the inside and through Inuit eyes.

For countless generations, Igloolik elders have kept the legend of Atanarjuat alive to teach young Inuit the danger of setting personal desire above the needs of the group.

The tale of making the film is itself made up of many stories…”

Visit the website to learn more about the film, it’s actors, the  many awards the film has won, and to view more of the photos from the film. Very intriguing!

 
Website: Atanarjuat The Fast Runner

“Who plots evil with deceit in his heart–he always stirs up dissension.”~ Proverbs 6:14~