Screenshot: Indigenous Film

Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode explore the history of indigenous and native people on screen. In 1922, silent film Nanook of the North was released. Written, directed and filmed by a white man, the docudrama showed the daily life of an Inuk man and his family in the Canadian Arctic. A century on, Screenshot explores the representation of indigenous people on screen, and who gets to tell their stories, with First Nation activist and culture critic Jesse Wente