MONTREAL — The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) today announced the two projects it will be bringing to the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which this year is operating as a hybrid festival due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
After garnering awards and accolades across Canada in 2020, Michelle Latimer’s documentary Inconvenient Indian (90th Parallel Productions/NFB) will see its U.S. festival debut in Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Competition. The 90-minute feature documentary will have two screenings during the festival, on January 31 and February 2.
Directed and written by Latimer, Inconvenient Indian brings to life Indigenous intellectual, master storyteller and author Thomas King’s brilliant dismantling of North America’s colonial narrative in his best-selling book The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America.
The documentary is produced by Stuart Henderson, Justine Pimlott and Jesse Wente, and executive produced by Gordon Henderson and Anita Lee.
The NFB’s second project being shown at Sundance is the first installment of Fortune (Atlas V/NFB/ARTE France), a new augmented-reality documentary series about money and wealth for mobile and social media platforms. The first episode was written by Webby Award-winning creative director, activist, documentary filmmaker and technologist Brett Gaylor (RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, Do Not Track, OK Google). The four-minute episode, The Ballad of Frank Bourassa, will screen in the festival’s New Frontier showcase on January 28.
