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The National Film Board of Canada has withdrawn the Michelle Latimer–directed documentary from active distribution by Kevin Ritchie, Radheyan Simonpillai on December 22nd, 2020 at 7:00 PM 1 of 3 2 of 3 The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has pulled Michelle Latimer’s documentary “After engaging with the Indigenous participants who appear on screen, the NFB’s Indigenous Advisory Group, and industry partners, the NFB, 90 th Parallel Productions and producer Jesse Wente have decided to withdraw Inconvenient Indian from active distribution,” the NFB said in a statement tod...

Canada pulls documentary from Sundance 2021 over director’s claims to indigenous roots Filmmaker apologizes for claiming family came from the Quebec Algonquin community. (Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute) An image from director Michelle Latimer's documentary "Inconvenient Indian," which was selected for the 2021 Sundance Film Festival's World Cinema Documentary competition — but was pulled by the National Film Board of Canada after questions about Latimer's claim to indigenous roots. | Updated: Dec. 24, 2020, 4:19 a.m. The National Film Board of Canada has pulled a documentary ...

Posted: Dec 22, 2020 5:01 PM ET | Last Updated: December 22, 2020 Michelle Latimer's film Inconvenient Indian was to make its U.S. debut at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival early next year. (Submitted by Michelle Latimer) The National Film Board is withdrawing the Michelle Latimer-directed documentary  Inconvenient Indian from all film festivals and distribution after her Indigenous identity claims were called into question last week. The film is an adaptation of author Thomas King's best-selling book The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America. The fi...

George Pimentel/Getty Images The National Film Board of Canada has pulled Michelle Latimer's film from all festivals after its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. Michelle Latimer's documentary Inconvenient Indian has been withdrawn from the Sundance Film Festival after the Canadian director came under scrutiny for claiming Indigenous family roots in a Quebec Algonquin community while promoting her film ahead of its Toronto Film Festival world premiere last summer. "After engaging with the Indigenous participants who appear onscreen, the NFB’s Indigenous advisory group, and indust...

Inconvenient Indian and showrunner, writer and director for the Viceland series Rise, is facing controversy following questions raised about her claims of Indigenous identity. On Thursday (Dec. 17), CBC News published a story reporting that during the summer questions had been raised over Latimer’s Indigenous identity, after her claims to be of Algonquin, Métis and French heritage, from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, were scrutinized by Kitigan Zibi members. Latimer issued her own statement on Thursday, saying: “I now realize that I made a mistake in naming Kitigan Zibi as my family’s com...