In a September 2020 interview about her current film and TV projects, she stated that her mother had a complicated relationship with her mixed race identity. ML: We have a research team of associate producers and researchers, which would work really closely together to develop the stories and pitch them. Five months ago, the director of CBC’s Trickster quit the series and saw a documentary pulled from distribution amid questions about whether she really had roots in the Kitigan Zibi nation. I knew I wanted to go to L.A. and find a Hollywood Western costume, and it happened to be around Halloween. There’s a headdress.’ It was unbelievable.”. Michelle Latimer, 2012 (Photo credit–Alan Langford) ... census records, genealogical reports and numerous interviews with native elders, artists … Can you talk about how you came to be there? POV: Sacred Water was shown at Sundance. Update (Dec. 21): This article was published prior to news that broke on Dec. 17, which put Michelle Latimer’s Indigenous identity under scrutiny. When the VICE Canada channel was conceived, RISE was one of his projects that he really wanted to see be made. Michelle Latimer won’t be happy if people view ... ‘Let’s look at our history in a way where we can’t feign ignorance any longer,’” she says in an interview. Michelle Latimer — filmmaker, actor, and curator of the festival’s Indigenous Program — sat down with CFUV’s Linda Sjostrom on February 5. All nine. RISE is technically eight one-hours, but then there’s a ninth version which is…Well, they’re normally 45 minutes for a television one-hour, and then I made another one, a ninth, that’s 68 minutes. My first union role out of school, I was 20 years old, was … But I never really knew that much about the women in AIM and even to this day it’s difficult to find information on them. I feel like there’s an accountability on people in indigenous communities to remember. As an Indigenous crew, how we came into the story helped our access immeasurably. And obviously John Trudell is such an iconic figure for my generation. “It really changed my life being in Standing Rock for those nine months, personally and professionally. You’re still coming for our land,’ I kind of wanted that to be the message without being expositional.”. : Director and producer Michelle Latimer speaks about VICE’s Indigenous doc series ‘RISE’ By Marc Glassman • Published February 6th, 2017Comments. To be invited to be part of those experiences and to make connections with people on that level, it’s something that I’ll take with me my whole life. 2015 | 3 min. “I don’t know, I was so young at the time. A previous version quoted a 2013 Toronto Star interview with Michelle Latimer. It was something I learned about much later in my life. A real poet. Courtesy of VICE. He was out at the drill padlock, then at Standing Rock, and the police were shooting water cannons at him. POV: What is your relationship like with the host, Sarain Carson-Fox? Her ability to connect with people on a ceremonial level is excellent. Michelle Latimer is a Canadian actress, director, writer, and filmmaker. The film was to make its … From the Trail of Tears, to today’s Ipperwash and Oka, he uses mordant humour and sarcasm to pierce through the shaky justifications used to “tame” a continent. (Latimer is of Metis and Algonquin heritage). It was a very organic process. This past December, the Canadian filmmaker became the centre of an explosive debate about identity, representation, diversity and opportunity. When I graduated Concordia University, I was doing a lot of theater and transitioned to film and television. Knowing what is the purpose of the scene, in the story that we’re telling, and being able to listen and think about that: it taught me to be more organised as a director. In other words, Michelle Latimer is white. RISE is now streaming on VICE. POV: Was there a chain of command you had to deal with? So, they weren’t the most popular among the Lakota and Dakota. It’s just, it’s so sad. ML: Every day! POV: In Sacred Water there is a lot of talk about dams. I’ve had very little sleep, Marc! So much of the other stuff I read focused on the police brutality and that’s a very real aspect of what’s going down there. At the beginning we didn’t know if Standing Rock was even a story. We have the ability and there’s never been a better time for it. Rise Up! “I did not grow up learning about Residential Schools. That’s where the United Nations’ declaration on Indigenous people came from. And where King does indeed play historian with the recent history of resistance protests, giving the context for the Okas and Ipperwashes that was often missing from media coverage, Latimer felt a montage suited her film more. Mar 01, 2021 1:36 PM ET. @justsayrad. This was in the ‘50s. There are cultural protocols when you go into our communities that are often not abided by because it’s often not Indigenous people making these films. POV: What do you think about American Indian Movement [AIM]? I’m getting delirious! That’s when we went back and got drone shots and everything. Whenever I talk to young people that are making films, I always say, “Think about why you want to tell this story. Interviews. And then I started to dig and realised, oh my god, there’s so much footage! POV: Tell me about how RISE started. It’s a brown, muddy river. VICE’s producers always wanted to make sure that there was enough of a story to support a one-hour film but really I thought there was a lot of leeway and trust. We don’t write things in books. I thought, “I’m just going to follow this story and if it ends up being a small film about the beginnings of an occupation camp that really doesn’t go anywhere, that’s ok, there’s value in that. This is still going on. ML: He says you can’t separate the spirituality from the ecology. You would never demolish a cathedral. I don’t want to take away from that, but when I read his article in Indian Country Today, about the history of the Oceti Sakowin Nation and I read the brutalities that have been going on since the 1800s, I had chills down my spine. It started as a very personal story and went into a larger, wider contextualisation of the history of the Oceti Sakowin Nation. And that context for me was missing. We weren’t really learning about our culture in school. You’re gifted a story and that story is your heritage and your responsibility. “To be honest, I was a bit naïve. It’s exciting to see your people on screen and see what they fought for and to understand how that’s informed today. The Custer/Battle of Little Bighorn re-creation (which actually takes place in Montana) is one. I just couldn’t believe the parallels to today. In response, the filmmaker, who has never provided full details of her claimed Indigenous identity in previous interviews, issued a … And that’s certainly an aspect of our second film that we follow up Sacred Water with, Red Power. RISE director Michelle Latimer ML: I’d heard about AIM but mostly around Wounded Knee and Alcatraz. ML: Yeah he’s amazing; he’s still out, fighting! It’s all sorts of people. It was kind of a reminder of the complex relationship Indigenous people have had, not just with Hollywood but with cinema in general.”. There was a presence of surveillance—helicopters that you see in the film, that kind of thing, and the encroaching pipeline—but there wasn’t the police presence that we saw later in Standing Rock. https://etcanada.com/.../michelle-latimer-reflects-on-childhood-racism By Marc Glassman • Published February 6th, 2017Comments. Five months ago, the director of CBC’s Trickster quit the series and saw a documentary pulled from distribution amid questions about whether she really had roots in the Kitigan Zibi nation. And it’s not really valued in the dominant culture: that idea of storytelling, that idea of ancestry, that idea of the land as a sacred, living partnership. This is insane. Michelle Latimer: I studied Theatre Performance and intended to go into performance. INTRODUCTION. POV editor Marc Glassman spoke to Michelle Latimer about RISE, as the show was about to be broadcast on VICE Canada. That’s something we often don’t talk about but it was actually a really important part of the process of making RISE. In our interview, she discusses her ... Update, December 21: This story has been updated to include Michelle Latimer’s resignation from Trickster. There’s a powerful scene in Apache Stronghold in which Featherstone shows Sarain the shocking effect on the land of copper mining. It’s about the people of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation taking a stand against the U.S. government’s attempt to build a pipeline through their ancestral lands. Inconvenient Indian will screen online and in person at the Vancouver International Film Festival which starts on September 24. We had a lot of creative room there. 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. Luckily I shot with DOPs that I’ve worked with for years in my own independent filmmaking. But when I came to do Inconvenient Indian, I wanted to do something that was more poetic. ML: My interest in the Sioux area actually started because I read an article that Nick wrote, which encapsulated the fight. I always talk to my crew when we shoot and we kind of tune in to what we want – in this case, someone appropriating across cultures. I went to VICE and said, “I really think we need to make another film here. I think it’s because native people don’t demarcate land that way. “That scene is so funny because it took place on the Crow reservation and the Crows were infamous for being scouts for Custer’s troops. I’ll never forget showing up at a Brazilian river, the Rio Doce, and seeing it dead. Plus a first look at Hot Docs and DOXA hits, and a deep dive on the “Netflix formula” with alternatives for doc fans. Courtesy of VICE. In fact, the interview quote was from the Globe and Mail. I had the same thoughts when I read this interview. But for me it was a larger exploration of the history of the land, the Sioux people’s relationship to this land, and the Sioux people’s history with the American government. Latimer stated BMing repeated queries for an interview. ‘I made a mistake’: Canadian filmmaker Michelle Latimer addresses Indigenous ancestry questions Barry Hertz Published December 17, 2020 Updated December 17, 2020 “And then we went to the parade you saw. Outrage and humour are not mutually exclusive, and Latimer is still amused at some of the outrageous things that ended up in the film. ML: Things are pretty tight. The Globe and Mail - After five months of silence, Michelle Latimer is ready to talk. Why are you the only person that can tell this story? “They say, when your life flashes before your eyes, or you’re in a war zone, all you want to do after is read poetry. CBC… And so I think the narrative that you’re going to see coming out of Standing Rock is largely going to be about The Law, the Dave Archambaults [leading the official Indigenous resistance], the legal fight, the police brutality. On Dec. 17, CBC News published an investigation that scrutinized Ms. Latimer’s Indigenous heritage, focusing on her ties to Kitigan Zibi, an Algonquin community in western Quebec. When I graduated Concordia University, I was doing a lot of theater and transitioned to film and television. I actually said, “I want to break the format. Original-Cin TIFF interview: Michelle Latimer on outrageous Indigenous imagery and her stylistic approach to Thomas King's Inconvenient Indian September 10, 2020 “Historical recreations,” like Custer’s Last Stand, are the butt of acidic humour in Thomas King’s book The Inconvenient Indian , and in Michelle Latimer ’s stylistic activist documentary of the same name .. Already known for her directing in the resistance doc series Rise, Latimer is represented two-fold at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, with both Inconvenient Indian (Saturday at the TIFF Bell Lightbox) and the six-part CBC-produced miniseries Trickster (two episodes of which are presented in a feature-length presentation at the Lightbox Tuesday). It’s funny because I’ve seen so many films about the Civil Rights movement in black America and I’m always impressed by the archival. Because it got pretty scary there for a while. I remember Roger said, “I’m going to drive you to Oak Flat where we can have a beautiful lookout, but we’re going to pass the copper mine on the way.” He’s like, “Oh, you’ve never seen an open-pit copper mine? I did my first set of moccasins there, sewing them and beading them. ML: With respect to Sacred Water, to me, the film couldn’t have been made without Ladonna Brave Bull Allard. On Dec. 17, CBC News published an investigation that scrutinized Ms. Latimer’s Indigenous … In interviews, Latimer has said that her father is French-Canadian and that her mother is Algonquin and Métis. I got a call in the spring of 2015, just sort of headhunting me and asking, “We see that you do this kind of work; are you interested in doing something like this with us?” The conversation continued until they hired me in August of 2015. Can you share a little about your background? You have to tell those stories to your grandchildren. POV: In Apache Stronghold there’s a scene with Roger Featherstone and Sarain. In our interview, she discusses her ... Update, December 21: This story has been updated to include Michelle Latimer’s resignation from Trickster. Just being on the ground as an activist was stressful enough. At this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Latimer’s two newest projects debuted: “Inconvenient Indian,” a documentary that looks at Indigenous representation in North America and “Trickster,” an upcoming supernatural television show. Many have compared Trickster to Twin Peaks, a comparison that Latimer, a David Lynch fan, greets with pride. And a lot of interconnections. They’re selling these for Halloween! And I think that was really powerful because I think there were lots of young Indigenous people who were maybe waiting or hoping for an opportunity and when this purpose came, it ignited a lot of us. I didn’t want to label them. TIFF Reclamation For Latimer, Trickster is … I call it the “Appropriation Montage.” The West Hollywood Halloween Parade. There was none of that. Trickster Season 2. “If your team feels that this is an important story to tell, let’s find a way to tell it.” We would pitch to executives in New York and I’m very lucky, my executive, Bernardo Loyola, happens to be a very successful editor. No Ordinary Man (Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt) “The story No Ordinary Man tells is one of lost transgender history that’s finally being reclaimed. And I said, “I want to talk to you about your article.” Then that conversation led into another conversation and led into another until I said, “I need to interview you!” Everything just grew and blossomed from there. So, I took a chance and I said, ‘Let’s go into a Halloween store and see if they’re selling anything.’. ML: I think the thing that benefits RISE is that Sarain is Midewin, which is from the medicine lodge of the Anishinaabe people. Call Michelle Latimer the talent to watch at TIFF 2020. It was very interesting to finally meet women, who had been part of AIM. And so when we would come and offer tobacco or engage in ceremony or consult the elders before cameras even went on, that really made the difference in the process. I think in the 60s that’s what AIM offered a lot of people who’d been forced to relocate to the cities. There are many, many, many resistance movements in that montage. Courtesy of VICE POV: There’s one archival scene with Russell Means where he’s really passionate—-and gets angry. But I got to connect with a lot of interesting elders who taught me a lot about traditional medicines, beadwork. Courtesy of VICE When we showed up, there was no media on the ground and there were twenty people in a camp. As an independent filmmaker, it would take me a year to two years to finance one of these films. Michelle Latimer explores cultural colonization in Inconvenient Indian, a documentary adaptation of Thomas King’s book. The TV Junkies: Have you always wanted to direct? Her Inconvenient Indian is a trippy, “experiential” art-house film, with the author himself on a cab ride to “the attic of his mind” (a theatre) while a trickster-like coyote does the driving. Latimer declined repeated requests for an interview. But now I’m even more of an advocate for Indigenous people needing to tell their own stories. The story, reported by Jorge Barrera and Ka’nhehsi:io Deer, included accusations of exploitation and appropriation by members of the Indigenous community. That’s what having a platform like VICE offered, which was really appealing to me. So, it’s ironic that the Thunder Bay-raised Toronto-based filmmaker traces the awakening of her consciousness to a summer job at age 14 at Old Fort William, where she played the part of an early 19th Century Metis woman. Michelle Latimer. I don’t want a host. That was her land, which was at risk; it was her initiative to have the camp, where we shot and where the resistance is centred. RISE director Michelle Latimer Courtesy of VICE.. RISE is an extraordinary documentary series, which explores the lives and politics of Indigenous people in Brazil, Canada and the United States. An actor from the Little Big Horn “historical recreation.”. The teen who discovered her culture at a tourist attraction, is, these days, one of the most prominent voices among Indigenous filmmakers. Did you learn lots while making the film? My first union role out of school, I was 20 years old, was … But there it is, every year, on the Crow reservation in Montana.”, A trip to Los Angeles was even more surreal. It’s more like they were behind the scene, behind the leaders, Dennis Banks and Russell Means, you know? “Historical recreations,” like Custer’s Last Stand, are the butt of acidic humour in Thomas King’s book The Inconvenient Indian, and in Michelle Latimer’s stylistic activist documentary of the same name.. It’s part of King’s thesis that “Dead Indians” are the stereotypical images we’ve tended to preserve in the lens of white “settler” culture. Latimer said in the emails that she had believed she had a legitimate connection to Kitigan … POV: Right. Filmmaker Michelle Latimer speaks about Indigenous ancestry dispute 2021-05-11 - This conversation has been condensed and edited. All of that was amazing.”, “And then I went to Concordia (University) for theatre, and my minor was in film studies. Note: A second part of POV’s interview with Latimer will run shortly. The following interview with Michelle Latimer has been a collaborative effort over the past several months between Ottawa-based Nelson Jack Davis (President & CEO of Makatok Pictures) and myself (see below for our bios). Did VICE approach you or did you approach them? She is currently showrunning and directing the scripted series Trickster (Sienna Films/Streel Films/CBC), and has just completed production on the feature doc Inconvenient Indian (90th Parallel Productions/National Film Board of Canada/Crave), an adaptation of Thomas King’s book. Michelle Latimer and Jesse Wente in conversation with TIFF in advance of INCONVENIENT INDIAN's premiere at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. In other words, Michelle Latimer is white. https://seventh-row.com/.../michelle-latimer-inconvenient-indian-interview I want to do studio interviews with the Interrotron.” And they were like, “Whoa, whoa, whoa, this isn’t at all like your series!” And I said, “these are the reasons why.” And they came back with, “100% go for it. “That was my first job,” she recalls, “dressing up as a Metis woman in a wigwam. ML: It was. “When the Woman Warrior at the checkpoint says, ‘Nothing has changed in 150 years, you’re still coming with your guns. It wasn’t a massacre but in so many ways, it was. ML: It’s kind of my dream! ML: I didn’t know! But for us, Standing Rock did that for a lot of my generation and younger. We were invited on a buffalo kill where we literally killed and skinned and drank the blood of the buffalo that was sacrificed: the highest honoured ceremony of the Sioux people. They found each other in these communities and they organised. “Some of that montage is Ipperwash, some is Oka, some is Caledonia. So as a filmmaker there was a part of me that’s thinking, I don’t really know if there’s a story here. But I actually think that the values are starting to come back because it’s not just Indigenous people that are seeing the effects on the planet. By Nick Estes • Published December 14th, 2020 • Issue 113, Fall/Winter 2020 • Comments. Oh well, wait, I’ll show it to you!” And we went around the corner and he’s like, “Look!” And it was shocking. Because we can offer something that’s different; we can offer insight and something of value. POV: What was it like working with VICE’s resources, allowing for travel and time? Kind of amazing! But it also makes me much more of an advocate, even though I’ve always been. There’s more to the story.” And VICE is amazing! It’s so important that we are telling our stories and going into our communities and voicing those things and not letting other people do that for us anymore. But I think there were many moments like that throughout the shooting of these films. POV: Can you talk about a really articulate figure in Sacred Water and Red Power, Nick Estes? Michelle Latimer runs on passion. We generally made the films on eight to nine days shooting. Canadian filmmaker Michelle Latimer says she made a mistake in naming the First Nations community of Kitigan Zibi as part of her ancestry … It’s not something to be controlled, but a partnership that you live in balance with. Michelle Latimer, who recently directed the CBC television series Trickster and the documentary Inconvenient Indian, has risen to become one of Canada's most prominent names in Indigenous filmmaking. Michelle Latimer: I studied Theatre Performance and intended to go into performance. Latimer previously paid her dues in 2016 with on the ground reportage for Rise, of the Standing Rock reservation’s protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline, a lengthy confrontation that included water cannons and attack dogs. And Tania Natscheff was the exec on the Canadian side. Part 2 of this interview is coming soon. Ecology is a way in for some people to understand why Indigenous people are fighting so hard. Canadian filmmaker Michelle Latimer says she made a mistake in naming the First Nations community of Kitigan Zibi as part of her ancestry without formally verifying it. Michelle Latimer: I studied Theatre Performance and intended to go into performance. My family is pretty Christianized, my mother’s side of the family anyway.”, Was she typecast as a Metis at Old Fort William? Told with verve and compassion, the show addresses ecology as well as the fraught history of Native peoples in the Americas to tell truthful stories of what is happening in such places as Standing Rock, Winnipeg’s northside and southeastern Brazil. It was such a journey as a filmmaker, because not only did I get to meet these incredible people and be gifted their stories—it’s a huge responsibility but also a major honour—but then they would welcome me into their homes and into their ceremonies, into their families! [All three films mentioned in this interview were at the festival—Editor’s Note.] How could we be in 2016 and it’s not that different from the 1800s? That’s where that came from. Filmmaker Michelle Latimer, shown last August, declined interview requests about the controversy over her ancestry when it originally broke in December. Trickster Season 2 Director Michelle Latimer has to say? It was really empowering to find some of that footage with Russell Means and John Trudell and be able to put it in the film. They declared themselves a red race. It’s become a huge political issue in recent months. Both a requiem for and an honouring of Canada's First Nations, Métis and Inuit women, this short film deconstructs the layers of Canadian nationalism. In response, the filmmaker, who has never provided full details of her claimed Indigenous identity in previous interviews, issued a … I directed, and produced, and story-edited, and wrote all of them. She laughs when I suggest sarcastically of the staged massacre (in which the attacking Natives use spears and arrows) that the Lakota Sioux probably had guns in real life (they did). ML: I was approached by Eddy Moretti, one of the chief creative officers of VICE. The Indigenous series is inventive, funny, tense, and beautiful, with a cast that is perfect together. By the author’s own admission, The Inconvenient Indian is a history book minus footnotes (his contention: history is just stories we choose to tell). We had a shorthand, and I’m really comfortable with verite but it really taught me about myself, about knowing what I want to achieve when I go into a scene. So yeah, I heard the stories of AIM. The Algonquin/Métis filmmaker has two projects among TIFF’s scaled-down 50 film line … One of our characters says, “We tell you it’s sacred but it’s not recognised because it’s not written in the books that it’s sacred.” Because ours is an oral culture. The following interview with Michelle Latimer has been a collaborative effort over the past several months between Ottawa-based Nelson Jack Davis (President & CEO of Makatok Pictures) and myself (see below for our bios). Sign up with your email address to receive the latest reviews, news and interviews. It was almost like having a conversation on screen. The film Inconvenient Indian has been pulled from active release. My first union role out of school, I was 20 years old, was … Digital issues available via Magzter and Zinio. Filmmaker Michelle Latimer speaks about Indigenous ancestry dispute 2021-05-11 - This conversation has been condensed and edited. 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