''Red Fever'' is a 2024 Canadian documentary film, directed by

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and

Catherine Bainbridge Catherine Bainbridge is a Canadian director, writer, and producer. She co-founded Rezolution Pictures, a Montreal-based film and television production company focusing primarily on Canadian Aboriginal productions, with director/writer/producer ...

. The film explores mainstream Western culture's fascination with, and tendency to appropriate, indigenous culture without fully understanding it.John Hazelton
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'', April 27, 2024. The film premiered at the 2024

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. It was subsequently also screened at the

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, where it was the winner of the Nigel Moore Award for Youth Programming. It entered commercial release in June 2024. It won the Cinema Indigenized Outstanding Talent award at the

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Critical response

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'', Tim Grierson called the film "a commendable educational tool that could be shown in classrooms", and "a breezy but earnest exploration of the myriad ways Indigenous societies have shaped the modern world, from contemporary fashion to democracy itself." In ''POV Magazine'', Pat Mullen wrote: "Audiences expecting cutaways to notorious pretendians in entertainment and academia won’t find them. Instead of focusing on individual white people exploiting Indigenous culture for personal gain, Diamond and Bainbridge take a “bigger picture” approach. This film queries the culture that treats one part of the population as a collective mascot."

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* 2024 films 2024 documentary films Canadian documentary films Documentary films about First Nations 2020s English-language films 2020s Canadian films English-language documentary films Rezolution Pictures films {{2020s-Canada-documentary-film-stub