Film Festival. Indigenous identity controversy Through much of her career Latimer identified as having Algonquin and Métis heritage, based on a family oral history of indigenous ancestry in the province of Quebec. In interviews, Latimer has said that her father is French-Canadian and that her mother is Algonquin and Métis. In a September 2020 interview about her current film and TV projects, she stated that her mother had a complicated relationship with her mixed race identity. In December 2020, her indigenous identity came into question after a National Film Board (NFB) press release announcing the release of her film Inconvenient Indian stated a connection to the community of Kitigan Zibi in Quebec, which the community denied. Latimer subsequently apologized for having claimed historical roots to the Kitigan Zibi community before fully verifying them, and resigned from the production of her television series Trickster, after the husband and wife producing team of Tony Elliott and Danis Goulet resigned from the show, citing the questions and criticism about Latimer’s ethnic identity as their reason. Latimer's documentary film Inconvenient Indian was also withdrawn from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, all other film festivals, and from distribution, by the NFB until further notice. In responding to journalists, Latimer said her identification as Indigenous rested on the oral history of her maternal grandfather who talked about being Indigenous and sometimes used the term "Métis". She said: "I never had reason to question what my family had told me. I’d again say that going back to identity is complex... Identity is not just about ancestral connection. It is about our values and our worldview and how those are incorporated. I grew up in the North, I grew up with those teachings. And that, for me, is what makes me Indigenous." Census records reviewed by CBC News suggest that Latimer's grandfather was French-Canadian. However, Dominique Ritchot, a genealogist and researcher with an expertise in French-Canadian families, claimed that Latimer had two Indigenous ancestors dating from 1644, while most of her other ancestors were identifiable as French Canadian, Irish and Scottish. Later, Sébastien Malette, an associate professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, and Siomonn Pulla, an associate professor in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Royal Roads University produced a joint genealogical report which found that Latimer has Indigenous ancestry from both her paternal and maternal lines that originated from a "historical