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Jean-Luc Kanapé is an Innu activist and Canadian actor, most prominent as a caribou conservationist. 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.

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

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

In 2024, he appeared in François Péloquin's film The Thawing of Ice (La fonte des glaces).

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.
6. Charles-Henri Ramond, "La fonte des glaces en salle le 22 mars". Films du Québec, January 26, 2024.

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