Jean-Luc Kanapé

Jean-Luc Kanapé is an Innu activist and actor from Canada, most prominent as a caribou conservationist.[1] A researcher for the Pessamit Innu Band council, he is involved in efforts to track and monitor the population of caribou in the Pipmuacan region near Pessamit and Baie-Comeau.[2]

In 2021 he received an emerging leadership award from the First Nations Guardians Gathering, an organization of indigenous environmentalists and conservationists.[3]

He had his first acting role in the 2021 film Nouveau Québec,[4] for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Performance in a Film at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023.[5]

References
  1. "In Canada’s boreal forest, one man works to save the caribou". Borneo Bulletin, November 24, 2022.
  2. Marie-Laure Josselin, "Le gardien des atikuet". Ici Radio-Canada, April 24, 2021.
  3. Josianne Bérubé, "Jean-Luc Kanapé remporte un prix soulignant le leadership autochtone". Le Manic, June 19, 2021.
  4. "Jean-Luc Kanapé dans Nouveau-Québec : « une réconciliation entre les deux peuples »". Ici Radio-Canada Première, March 26, 2022.
  5. "Le film québécois Viking obtient 13 nominations aux prix Écrans canadiens". Ici Radio-Canada, February 22, 2023.


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