Indigenous Producer Who Fought Cannes Dress Code With Moccasins Launches Production Outfit IndigiFilm (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Manori Ravindran International EditorKelvin Redvers, the Indigenous Canadian producer who fought the Cannes Film Festival dress code that prevented him from wearing moccasins on its red carpet, is launching a production company, Variety can reveal.Redvers’ new outfit is called Indigifilm, and will focus on developing and producing scripted and unscripted projects in collaboration with international and Canadian creatives.IndigiFilm has already completed filming on its first feature, “Cold Road,” in partnership with Bell Media’s streaming platform Crave.

The thriller was written and directed by Redvers — who is part of the Deninu Kųę́ First Nation of the Northwest Territories — and revolves around an Indigenous woman’s harrowing road trip to be with her dying mother in a remote northern First Nation.

It was shot entirely in Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Development at IndigiFilm will be led by industry veteran Neil Thomas, co-creator of the Discovery series “Highway Thru Hell” and showrunner on Discovery Canada’s “Mud Mountain Haulers” (Season 1).Mark Miller, co-founder of Great Pacific Media and the former president of Thunderbird Entertainment, also brings his experience to help advise, create and finance productions out of IndigiFilm.The Vancouver-based Redvers grabbed international headlines when, as reported by Variety, he was banned from walking the Cannes red carpet in a pair of traditional Dene moccasins.

Following a complaint by the Indigenous Screen Office and Telefilm, Cannes organizers met with Redvers and his colleagues and apologized for the incident.