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Article: Take One's: 2002 Survey of Canadian Cinema.
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- Take One
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- March 1, 2003
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Every year, Take One tracks all the Canadian features and feature-length documentaries that play in the Greater Toronto Area--the largest market in the world for English-Canadian films--in an effort to develop a picture of those Canadian films that are popular with the theatre-going public. The hands-down 2002 favourite was Zacharias Kunuk's Inuit epic, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. Although honoured at the 2001 Genies for Best Picture, Director and Screenplay, Atanarjuat didn't begin its commercial run until 2002 and outlasted all contenders, making it one of the most popular Canadian features of all time.
In many respects, 2002 was an excellent year for Canadian ...