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Reel Injun is a 2009 Canadian documentary film directed by Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge, and Jeremiah Hayes that explores the portrayal of Native Americans in film. Reel Injun is illustrated with excerpts from classic and Read More..

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Description	Reel Injun is a 2009 Canadian documentary film directed by Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge, and Jeremiah Hayes that explores the portrayal of Native Americans in film. Reel Injun is illustrated with excerpts from classic and contemporary portrayals of Native people in Hollywood movies and interviews with filmmakers, actors and film historians, while director Diamond travels across the United States to visit iconic locations in motion picture as well as American Indian history.Reel Injun explores many stereotypes about Natives in film, from the Noble savage to the Drunken Indian. It profiles such figures as Iron Eyes Cody, an Italian American who reinvented himself as a Native American on screen. The film also explores Hollywood's practice of using Italian Americans and American Jews to portray Indians in the movies and reveals how some Native American actors made jokes in their native tongue on screen when the director thought they were simply speaking gibberish.
Description	Reel Injun is a 2009 Canadian documentary film directed by Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge, and Jeremiah Hayes that explores the portrayal of Native Americans in film. Reel Injun is illustrated with excerpts from classic and contemporary portrayals of Native people in Hollywood movies and interviews with filmmakers, actors and film historians, while director Diamond travels across the United States to visit iconic locations in motion picture as well as American Indian history.Reel Injun explores many stereotypes about Natives in film, from the Noble savage to the Drunken Indian. It profiles such figures as Iron Eyes Cody, an Italian American who reinvented himself as a Native American on screen. The film also explores Hollywood's practice of using Italian Americans and American Jews to portray Indians in the movies and reveals how some Native American actors made jokes in their native tongue on screen when the director thought they were simply speaking gibberish.

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Director	, Neil Diamond , Catherine Bainbridge Jeremiah Hayes
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Writer	, Neil Diamond, Jeremiah Hayes, Catherine Bainbridge
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Cinematography	Edith Labbe
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Starring	, Angela Aleiss , Adam Beach , Clint Eastwood , Sacheen Littlefeather , Zacharias Kunuk , Jim Jarmusch , Robbie Robertson , Russell Means , Melinda Micco , Jesse Wente , Neil Diamond
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Music	, Claude Castonguay , Mona Laviolette
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Runtime	85 minutes
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Country	Canada
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Language	English
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Producer	, Catherine Bainbridge , Christina Fon , Linda Ludwick
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Studio	,Rezolution Pictures,National Film Board of Canada
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Distributor	Domino Film
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Released	2009/9/10 (Toronto) /2010/2/19 (Canada)
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