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Canada Media Fund (CMF) announced the 14 projects receiving $5.5 million in funding as part of their English POV program.

Two of the supported projects are from NSI alumni:

• Red Fever from Rezolution Pictures’ Catherine Bainbridge, Christina Fon (both NSI Global Marketing) and Ernest Webb (NSI Aboriginal Cultural Trade Initiative)

From fashion shows, music festivals and re-enactment camps, to sports, art and literature, Red Fever will travel the globe to explore the world’s fascination for all things Native American. Red Fever will take us on a journey exploring cultural appropriation, trying to understand and uncover its extreme complexity while at the same time showing why it’s such an important and urgent topic to tackle today, and why it has generated so many heated debates lately.

• Inconvenient Indian from Michelle Latimer (NSI Drama Prize)

This urgent documentary from director Michelle Latimer (Rise) takes us on a journey into the mind of Thomas King, one of the world’s foremost Indigenous intellectuals and one of our greatest storytellers. A mix of stylized interview, archival material and on-the-ground footage of today’s “inconvenient Indians,” this documentary follows King on a journey through time, illuminating his “curious account of Native People in North America.”

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