The Pretendians (2022)

Directed by

Paul Kemp, Drew Hayden Taylor

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

44 min

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary looks at people who falsely claim Indigenous identity in Canada. It discusses topics like fake Indigenous art and follows the search for a major offender who refuses to be confronted.

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What happens

The Pretendians is a Canadian television documentary film, directed by Drew Hayden Taylor and released in 2022. The film explores the issue of people falsely claiming Indigenous status despite a lack of any documented First Nations, Métis or Inuit heritage, covering the issue from a variety of facets including the production of fake Indigenous art and the efforts to track down a significant false claimant of Indigenous identity who has resisted any efforts to confront him on it. The film debuted on September 30, 2022, as an episode of The Passionate Eye. The film won the Donald Brittain Award for best social or political television documentary at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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