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Natar Ungalaaq is a Actor Canadien born on 1 january 1959 at Igloolik (Canada)
Natar Ungalaaq (born 1959) is a Canadian Inuit actor, filmmaker, and sculptor whose artwork is in many major collections of Inuit art worldwide. Before playing the lead roles in Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001) and Ce qu'il faut pour vivre (2008), Ungalaaq played major roles in other Canadian and American films, including Kabloonak (1995), Glory & Honor (1998) and Frostfire (1994). He is also producer and director of the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation.
He was the carving buddy of director Zacharias Kunuk before they sold their handmade objets d'art to buy their first camera gear in 1981 and start a production company based in an Inuit community that didn't even have a TV.
Natar is also a renowned carver. He began carving when he was 9 or 10 years old, using his grandfathers tools. A carving of a Sedna made of white soapstone, "Sedna with a Hairbrush 1985", is featured in the National Gallery of Canada's collection.
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Natar Ungalaaq
He was the carving buddy of director Zacharias Kunuk before they sold their handmade objets d'art to buy their first camera gear in 1981 and start a production company based in an Inuit community that didn't even have a TV.
Natar is also a renowned carver. He began carving when he was 9 or 10 years old, using his grandfathers tools. A carving of a Sedna made of white soapstone, "Sedna with a Hairbrush 1985", is featured in the National Gallery of Canada's collection.
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Maïna (2013)
, 1h42Directed by Michel Poulette
Origin Quebec
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Graham Greene, Roseanne Supernault, Tantoo Cardinal, Graham Greene, Eric Schweig, Natar Ungalaaq
Roles Tadlo
Rating66%
Maïna relate la première rencontre des Inuits et des Innus. Maïna, le personnage principal du film, en essayant de sauver Nipki, un autre Innus, se fait capturer par les inuits. Elle y rencontre alors l'Inuit Natak, et ils tombent amoureux l'un de l'autre... Maina est Innu de Betsimites
The Legend of Sarila (2013)
, 1h20Directed by Nancy Florence Savard
Origin Canada
Genres Adventure, Animation
Actors Christopher Plummer, Rachelle Lefèvre, Dustin Milligan, Tim Rozon, Geneviève Bujold, Sonja Ball
Roles Ukpik (voice)
Rating49%
The young orphan Markussi lives with his little sister Mipoulok in an Inuit clan. Markussi can talk to animals and has some special powers unique to shamans. He does not want to be a shaman though and mainly keeps his powers a secret because he fears being a shaman would make him like the clan's shaman Croolik. Croolik grew selfish and unjust after the deaths of his sons, who died along with Markussi's father in an accident on a hunting trip. Croolik blames his sons' deaths on his now-separated wife Saya (whom he accuses of having let their sons go hunting at too young an age) and Markussi's father; by extension, Croolik also hates Markussi.
The Necessities of Life (2008)
, 1h42Directed by Benoît Pilon
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Natar Ungalaaq, Paul-André Brasseur, Vincent-Guillaume Otis, Éveline Gélinas, Antoine Bertrand, Denis Bernard
Roles Tiivii
Rating75%
The film uses the 1950s-era tuberculosis epidemic in the Far North as its starting point. The spread of the disease forced many Inuit to go to various Canadian cities for treatment. Tiivii (Natar Ungalaaq; Atanarjuat: the Fast Runner) is taken to a sanatorium in Quebec City, from Baffin Island July 1952. Uprooted, far from his loved ones and faced with a completely alien world, he finds himself unable to communicate with anyone.
, 1h52Directed by Zacharias Kunuk
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Documentary, Historical
Actors Natar Ungalaaq, Pierre Lebeau, Kim Bodnia, Jakob Cedergren
Roles Nuqallaq
Rating63%
Set primarily in and around Igloolik in 1922, the film depicts the encounter between a group of Inuit in Arctic Canada led by one of the last shamans of the Canadian Inuit, Aua, and three Danish ethnographers and explorers, Knud Rasmussen, Therkel Mathiassen and Peter Freuchen during the latter's "Great Sled Journey" of 1922. The film is shot from the perspective of the Inuit, showing their traditional beliefs and lifestyle. The shaman and his entourage must ultimately decide whether to join the ranks of another group of Inuit who have converted to Christianity.
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2002)
, 2h52Directed by Zacharias Kunuk
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Documentary, Fantasy, Action
Themes Films based on mythology, La préhistoire
Actors Natar Ungalaaq
Roles Atanarjuat
Rating73%
The film is set in Igloolik ("place of houses") in the Eastern Arctic wilderness at the dawn of the first millennium.
Kabloonak (1994)
, 1h50Themes Films about films
Actors Charles Dance, Natar Ungalaaq, Peter Hudson, Georges Claisse, Bernard Bloch
Roles Mukpullu
Rating70%
Tourné en Sibérie, Russie et Territoires canadiens du Nord-Ouest, il évoque le tournage du film Nanouk l'Esquimau de Robert Flaherty en 1919.