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NFB announces two projects to be showcased at Sundance in January

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...