Toronto Hidden Gem: 'Inconvenient Indian' Offers a Meditation on Circular Indigenous Storytelling
hollywoodreporter.comCanadian director Michelle Latimer says she was intimidated when first adapting as a documentary Thomas King’s bookInconvenient Indian, in which the America-born Canadian writer meditates on what it means to be "Indian" in North America. "I don't consider myself a historian, or an academic," Latimer, a Metis/Algonquin filmmaker, tells The Hollywood Reporter ahead of her film's world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Saturday.
So she adopted King's circular style of literary storytelling – where animals are used to tell cryptic tales, and the past is the route to the future – to chronicle on screen the relationship of non-Natives and Native Canadians and Americans over time. "That for me cracked open the storytelling because I started.
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