Explore the negative representation of North American natives in Hollywood films through Reel Injun only on NDTV 24x

MUMBAI: Reel Injun, a documentary film by Neil Diamond is an entertaining and insightful look at the Hollywood Indian, exploring the portrayal of North American Natives through a century of cinema. For decades, Aboriginal people were frequently represented in Hollywood films, but these depictions were almost always deeply negative and wildly inaccurate.

Director Neil Diamond takes us on a highly entertaining road journey in which he interviews a broad range of Native actors, directors, writers, journalists and stand-up comics as they discuss how these negative representations affected their own self-image and how key positive images inspired them. The documentary Reel Injun carefully observes, this screen presence had a very real impact on Aboriginal people and on non-Aboriginal people‘s ideas of who they were.

Catch the documentary Reel Injun on November 20, Saturday at 3:00 pm and on November 21, Sunday at 1:00 pm only on NDTV 24x7.