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‘It Stings’: Dene Filmmaker Turned Away From Cannes Red Carpet Over Moccasins

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A Vancouver-based Indigenous film producer says he was treated like he was “trying to steal something” after being turned away from a red carpet event at the Cannes Film Festival because he was wearing a pair of traditional moccasins.

Kelvin Redvers, a member of the Dene Nation from the North West Territories, was at the festival with a group of six Indigenous filmmakers in a business program at Capilino University, with the backing of the Indigenous Screen Office and Telefilm. Read more: Semi-naked protester painted in Ukraine colours removed from Cannes red carpet On Sunday, he was invited Sunday to a red carpet screening of Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s “Les Amandiers”, where he planned to wear a formal black suit and bowtie, along with a pair of moccasins hand-made by his sister.

Redvers said that the team of mentors he was travelling with had explained that despite the festival’s ultra-strict dress code, there were allowances for cultural formalwear.

View link » “I 100 per cent showed up expecting that this was within the realm of the things they (would) allow,” Redvers told Global News. “As a Dene filmmaker, moccasins are a huge part of our culture.

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