Fear of the Indian – dir. Priscilla Candice Wolf

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: Fear of the Indian

Director’s Name: Priscilla Candice Wolf

Writer’s Name: Priscilla Candice Wolf

Producer: Priscilla Candice Wolf

Country of Origin: Canada

Country of Filming : Canada

Language: English

Runtime: 16 minutes

Film Description:

The theme of ignorance is meant to reveal how mainstream media covers the Indigenous community in mainstream media. Many factors contribute to how and why mainstream media doesn’t tell stories about Indigenous people fairly. The main factor being lack of information and education about Indigenous people. How does mainstream media portray Indigenous people in the media and has it improved in the past three decades? The overall subject of the larger overall documentary is how mainstream media portrays Indigenous people in Canada.