By Kathryn Mannie Zacharias Kunuk watched the Twin Towers fall in the same way many across the world did: huddled in front of a TV set, not quite sure if he could believe his eyes. But unlike others, the acclaimed filmmaker was watching the horror unfold from a hotel lobby in Toronto, awaiting the Canadian premiere of his debut feature “Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner” at the Toronto International Film Festival. “I thought it was a documentary,” Kunuk recalled as he watched the stream of images come in from New York. “We were at a festival … I thought first it was a commercial.” Kunuk had flown about 15 actors and elders from the remote Arctic hamlet of Igloolik, where his Inuktitut-language film was set, to attend the premiere on Sept….
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