Red Fever (2024)

Directed by

Neil Diamond

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 44m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about how Western culture borrows from Indigenous cultures without understanding them. It looks at the history and impact of these stereotypes and appropriations.

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What happens

Red Fever is a 2024 Canadian documentary film, directed by Neil Diamond and Catherine Bainbridge. The film explores mainstream Western culture's fascination with, and tendency to appropriate, indigenous culture without fully understanding it. The film premiered at the 2024 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. It was subsequently also screened at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, where it was the winner of the Nigel Moore Award for Youth Programming. It entered commercial release in June 2024. It won the Cinema Indigenized Outstanding Talent award at the 2024 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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