Taika Waititi on creating authentic Indigenous stories | TIFF 2019

At the Toronto International Film Festival, Taika Waititi discussed putting the power back into the hands of Indigenous storytellers; as well as the landmark film Smoke Signals, starring Canadians Tantoo Cardinal and Adam Beach, which boasts an all-Indigenous production — from director and writer, to cast and crew.

Taika Waititi is a writer, director, and actor from New Zealand. He most recently directed the critically acclaimed Thor: Ragnarok (17), which has made over $850 million worldwide. His credits as writer-director include episodes of Flight of the Conchords (07–09), the short film Two Cars, One Night (04), and the feature films Eagle vs Shark (07), 42 One Dream Rush (09), Boy (10), What We Do in the Shadows (14), and Hunt for the Wilderpeople (16).

[archiveeverything]

I click anything that says Taika Waititi

[loganx]

Indigenous peoples have lots of stories and lore. Most of it burned or destroyed by the Europeans.

[franknberry]

Boy amazing film
Smoke Signals amazing film

[Eric-efqm]

This explains alot to his motivation for working on Reservation Dogs...

[lossay]

I get what the critics mean because in Maori culture they really do value their ancestors and their spiritual side

[eileenmc]

Watch series Reservation Dogs Hulu restarts August. And Dark Winds on amc

[schmonzo]

So why is the Jojo cast not made out of Germans then?