Indigenous film
Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode explore the history of indigenous and native people on screen.
Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode explore the history of indigenous and native people on screen.
In 1922, silent film Nanook of the North was released. Written, directed and filmed by a white man, the docudrama claimed to show the daily life of an Inuit hunter and his family in the Canadian Arctic - but all wasn't quite as it seemed. A century on, Screenshot explores the representation of indigenous people on screen, and who gets to tell their stories, with film critic Jesse Wente who founded the Indigenous Screen Office.
Ellen also talks to director Leah Purcell about reimagining the Australian classic, The Drover's Wife, as an Indigenous, feminist Western.
And Mark speaks to the producers of Waru, Kerry Warkia and Kiel McNaughton, about their quest to bring Maori and Pasifika stories to a wider audience.


Producer: Marilyn Rust

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- Fri 6 May 2022 19:15±«Óătv Radio 4
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