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Production Methods
Production Methods
Production methods within fourth cinema are unique in several ways. Since the budget for these films is usually crowd funded or self funded, producers must use their resources and community to tell these deep rooted stories. This can be seen well in one of the first Indigenous only produced films "Smoke Signals." The community coming together to write, produce, and film this movie. Using their own reservation to film on.
Casting
Casting
With Indigenous cinema casting is used to represent the culture being shown using real indigenous talent to represent and play the native actors. Usually casting local talents and people of the community. Something that is unique to this method of casting is you're getting native casting agents casting native talent. This creates an environment where misrepresentation from the colonial gaze is eliminated entirely and authentic representation can shine through the talent. Director Chris Eyre saying "America holds in a romantic place the idea of Native Americans. Indians could be dead and gone and there would still be Indian-head icons on fruit boxes and Cherokee this and Cherokee that. I want to get away from the romantic stuff. Indian people are like anybody -- complicated people." This method of casting allows for that more authentic and less romantic portrayal.
Community Engagement
Community Engagement
Something special about indigenous fourth cinema is how it gets indigenous people in their community involved in these films. prioritizing indigenous voices in the story telling. this act of community building during and after the filmmaking process fosters a sense of ownership and responsibility towards cultural preservation. This can be seen in the film "Lakota Women: Siege at Wounded Knee" where the film cast and used real indigenous activists, protesters, and community members from the siege at Wounded Knee to ensure that the significance of the resistance at Wounded Knee is told from an Indigenous perspective.
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