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Top Canadian Director Responds to Controversy Over Indigenous Ancestry Claims

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Top Canadian film director Michelle Latimer has apologized after coming under scrutiny for claiming Indigenous family roots in a Quebec Algonquin community when promoting her documentary Inconvenient Indian ahead of its recent world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.

The feature, an adaptation of Thomas King's book Inconvenient Indian, in which the American-born Canadian writer meditates on what it means to be "Indian" in North America, will next have a U.S.

bow at the Sundance Film Festival next month. Latimer, who describes herself as a Metis/Algonquin filmmaker, in a statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter said she had responsibility as an "artist of mixed Indigenous and settler ancestry" to be precise in describing her personal.

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