technical advisor

{{Short description|Film crew member who ensures accuracy in diegesis}}

In film production, a technical advisor is someone who advises the director on the convincing portrayal of a subject. The advisor's expertise adds realism both to the acting and to the setting of a movie.

Nipo T. Strongheart was a noted technical advisor on several movies dealing with Native Americans.{{cite book|author=Joanna Hearne|title=Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xJ9z36n4ps8C&pg=PA78|date=25 January 2013|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-1-4384-4399-7|pages=78, 107}}{{cite journal

| last = Strongheart | first = Nipo T.

| date = Autumn 1954

| title = History in Hollywood

| journal = The Wisconsin Magazine of History

| volume = 38 | issue = 1 | pages = 10–16, 41–46

| jstor = 4632754}}