SYNOPSIS
The film follows Cree co-director Neil Diamond as he asks, “Why do they love us so much?!” and sets out on a journey to find out why the world is so fascinated with the stereotypical imagery of Native people that is all over pop culture.
Why have Indigenous cultures been revered, romanticized, and appropriated for so long, and to this day? Red Fever uncovers the surprising truths behind the imagery — so buried in history that even most Native people don`t know about them.
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DETAILS
DIRECTOR
Catherine Bainbridge
SEE COMPLETE PROFILECatherine Bainbridge is the co-founder, executive producer, and VP of business and creative development at Rezolution Pictures. She directed the Emmy-nominated, Sundance and CSA award-winning feature doc, RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World, and co-directed the Peabody and CSA award-winning feature doc, Reel Injun. Catherine is also an executive producer on the Crave Original series, Little Bird. Through her work at Rezolution, Catherine has been instrumental in changing the narrative when it comes to diversity and representation in the entertainment industry.
Neil Diamond
SEE COMPLETE PROFILENeil Diamond is from the Cree community, Waskaganish, on the coast of James Bay. Neil directed the award-winning feature documentary, Reel Injun, as well as One More River, Cree Spoken Here, and Heavy Metal: A Mining Disaster in Northern Quebec with Rezolution Pictures. His credits also include Inuit Cree Reconciliation, The Last Explorer and Dab Iyiyuu. He is an award winning photographer and co-founder of The Nation, the first news magazine to serve the Cree of northern Quebec and Ontario.
CAREER
Hot Docs · DOXA · ReFrame Film Festival · Festival du film de Knowlton · Les Percéides · Cinéfest Sudbury (Canada) · Indigenous Film & Arts Festival · Hamptons International Film Festival · Doctober Film Festival · Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival · Santa Fe International Film Festival · Windsor International Film Festival · First Nations Film and Video Festival Inc · Fort Lauderdale Film Festival · Alternative Film festival · Salt Spring Film Festival · Belleville Downtown DocFest · Saint Augustine Film festival · Skábmagovat – Indigenous peoples´ Film Festival