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Toronto: Indigenous Filmmakers Talk Cultural Appropriation, Narrative Sovereignty

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The Toronto Film Festival on Thursday grappled with the issue of Hollywood co-opting minority cultures for story content as Indigenous filmmakers challenged White directors not to take on the voices of underrepresented communities as their own. "The history of cinema has not valued authenticity.

It's been okay to tell any story you want. The perspective that I bring adds layer upon layer to that story," Canadian director Tracey Deer, who has brought her coming-of-age tale Beans to Toronto for a world premiere, told a TIFF panel on narrative sovereignty.

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