There Are No Fakes
There Are No Fakes

There Are No Fakes

April 29, 2019113 min7.0EN
Documentary

Norval Morrisseau was the first Indigenous Canadian artist to be taken seriously in the art world. By the turn of this century his work commanded tens of thousands of dollars. So when Barenaked Ladies keyboardist Kevin Hearn learned his prized painting was a forgery, he sued. But as Jamie Kastner's doc reveals, there was a cottage industry in fake Morrisseaus, an industry that flourished unchecked for years, feeding on greed, exploitation, racism and contempt.

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Cast

Sienna Demers
Sienna DemersYoung Amanda
Kevin Hearn
Kevin HearnSelf
Norval Morrisseau
Norval MorrisseauSelf (archive footage)