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11.09.2020 / 18:51
Michelle Latimer Bows Doc ‘Inconvenient Indian,’ TV Series at Toronto
Jennie Punter A few weeks before TIFF 2020, actor-turned-helmer Michelle Latimer is missing the cooler climes of Thunder Bay, on Lake Superior, where she grew up.But the hottest ticket in Toronto can’t skip town before her rare premiere double-header.In 2008, Latimer, who is of Algonquin, Metis and French heritage, left a busy acting career and has (mostly) worked behind the camera directing docs and series, notably, Viceland’s eight-parter “Rise,” about Indigenous-led resistance movements,