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10 Directors to Watch: Native Helmer Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. Maps Legacy of Violence in ‘Wild Indian’
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaLyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.’s assured feature debut plays like a much-needed corrective to decades of problematic depictions of the indigenous community on film. “Wild Indian” grapples with the full weight of the pain and suffering that has been inflicted on Native Americans and a drama that is unafraid to challenge the pat depictions of indigenous characters throughout movie history.“I hope people will see this film as an expression of what’s in the hearts of Native people,” says the director, for whom the film’s virtual Sundance premiere was a kind of homecoming, after screening his shorts “Shinaab” and “Shinaab, Part II” in Park City.
