Inconvenient Indian

Inconvenient Indian (2020)

Based on the bestselling book, this urgent feature documentary from celebrated director Michelle Latimer will take viewers on a journey into the mind of one of the world’s foremost Indigenous intellectuals, and one of our greatest storytellers: Thomas King.

Date of release
2020-09-10
TMDB
1.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Michelle Latimer

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film

Inconvenient Indian is a 2020 Canadian documentary film, directed by Michelle Latimer. It is an adaptation of Thomas King's non-fiction book The Inconvenient Indian, focusing on narratives of indigenous peoples of Canada. King stars as the documentary's narrator, with Gail Maurice and other indigenous artists appearing.

Production

Latimer told The Hollywood Reporter that she chose to make the documentary after having worked on her docu-series Rise, which also focused on indigenous issues, and wanting to make something that expounded on the topic rather than follow a real-time story.

She told CBC News that a moment during filming of an art gallery scene "reminded [her] why she became a filmmaker"; they were recording Monkman's painting The Scream, which depicts a young indigenous child being taken from their parents by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, in the gallery when an indigenous girl of a similar age came to see it, being pulled away from the image by her parents in a way that seemed to mimic the painting.

The score uses traditional Native music, including chants, strings, and drums. Sound designer and composer Brennan Mercer became involved with the film early in post-production before the rough cut was complete, so that the edit could visually respond to some of the sound he was designing.

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