Pubcasters and fest programmers doubtless will appreciate the attention-grabbing potential of “Reel Injun,” a sincere and straightforward doc about cinematic depictions of Native Americans from the ...

Receiving critical and commercial acclaim upon release, Dances with Wolves can be credited with revitalizing the Western at the dawn of the 1990s. Despite its success, the film has received a fair ...

Cannes-award winning filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk on Wednesday night will make a cameo appearance in Neil Diamond's "Reel Injun," a indie documentary about native American stereotypes to open the ...

Tomorrow is the premiere of Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian. We caught up with filmmaker Neil Diamond to talk about the film and his motivations. I hope it will make people question ...

Documentary explores the history of how Native Americans have been portrayed on film, from silent screen to Atanarjuat. The image of Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner, in the great Inuit movie, is what ...

From 2010 Winter Olympics medals and mascots to the opening ceremony, Native iconography has never been as prevalent in modern Vancouver as it is now. Although on the one hand the presence of Native ...

Neil Diamond never thought much of the First Nations stereotypes created by Hollywood westerns — he and his friends always cheered for the white cowboys. It wasn’t until he moved from Waskaganish in ...

One of Canada’s foremost Aboriginal filmmakers and photographers, Neil Diamond hails from the Cree community of Waskaganish. His recent credits include The Last Explorer, a feature-length docudrama ...

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In my youth, cowboys and Indians went together like horses and stagecoaches. Big screen or small, you couldn't have one without the other - the Lone Ranger and Tonto, Red Ryder and Little Beaver. And ...