Igloolik is a community of 1,200 people located on a small island in the north Baffin region of the Canadian Arctic with archeological evidence of 4,000 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.

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.

Dir/Prod ZACHARIAS KUNUK is the renowned Inuk filmmaker responsible for an extensive Inuktitut-language media presence, with directing, writing, and producing credits on a great variety of North American indigenous cinema, including over 30 films, funding for the IsumaTV multimedia platform, and much more.