Editing Robert J. Flaherty (section)

==Legacy==
Flaherty is considered a pioneer of [[documentary film]]. He was one of the first to combine documentary subjects with a fiction-film-like narrative and poetic treatment.

A self-proclaimed explorer, Flaherty was inducted into the [[Royal Geographical Society|Royal Geographic Society]] of England for his (re)discovery of the main island of the Belcher group in [[Hudson Bay]] in 1914.<ref name="mclane2">{{Cite book |url=https://docplayer.net/53491103-A-new-history-of-documentary-film.html |title=A New History of Documentary Film |last=McLane |first=Betsy A. |date=2012 |publisher=Continuum |isbn=9781441124579 |edition=2nd |location=New York |oclc=758646930 |page=21 |quote=Flaherty (re)discovered the main island of the Belcher group in Hudson Bay in 1914, and it was subsequently named for him. Flaherty often defined himself an explorer, and was proud of his induction into the Royal Geographic Society of England for this discovery.}}</ref>

[[Flaherty Island]], one of the [[Belcher Islands]] in Hudson Bay, is named in his honor.<ref name="mclane2"/>

The [[Flaherty Seminar]] is an annual international forum for independent filmmakers and film-lovers, held in rural upstate New York at [[Colgate University]] in mid June. The festival was founded in Flaherty's honor by his widow in 1955.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.flahertyseminar.org/index.php|title=The Flaherty|website=The Flaherty|date=August 3, 2022 }}</ref>

Flaherty's contribution to the advent of the documentary is scrutinized in the 2010 [[British Universities Film & Video Council]] award-winning and [[FOCAL International]] award-nominated documentary ''A Boatload of Wild Irishmen'',<ref>'[http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/news/2010/10/279.asp ''A Boatload of Wild Irishmen'']</ref> written by Professor [[Brian Winston]] of [[University of Lincoln]], UK, and directed by [[Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín]]. The film explores the nature of "controlled actuality" and sheds new light on thinking about Flaherty. The argument is made that the impact of Flaherty's films on the indigenous peoples portrayed changes over time, as the films become valuable records for subsequent generations of now-lost ways of life.<ref>A preview/trailer for ''A Boatload of Wild Irishmen'' can be viewed online. Accessed on 4/23/11 at: http://www.blip.tv/file/4246118</ref> The film's title derives from Flaherty's statement that he had been accused, in the staged climactic sequence of ''Man of Aran'', of "trying to drown a boatload of wild Irishmen".

In 1994, Flaherty was portrayed by [[Charles Dance]] in the Canadian drama film ''[[Kabloonak]]'', a dramatization of the making of ''Nanook of the North'' from an Inuit perspective.<ref name=captures>"Kabloonak captures the North". ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'', September 16, 1994.</ref>

The wife of Robert Joseph Flaherty's grandson, Louise Flaherty,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Flaherty, Louise {{!}} Inuit Literatures ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐊᓪᓚᒍᓯᖏᑦ Littératures inuites |url=https://inuit.uqam.ca/en/person/flaherty-louise |access-date=March 28, 2021 |website=inuit.uqam.ca}}</ref> is the co-founder of Canada's first independent [[Inuit|Inuk]] publishing house, Inhabit Media. She is also an author, educator and politician.