Fancy Dance
Mon
13
Mon 13 Nov 9:00 PM
Kino - Cinema 2
Wheelchair
Allocated Seating
Unclassified 15+
90 Mins | USAVICTORIAN PREMIERE
Premiering at Sundance earlier this year, Fancy Dance, the feature film directorial debut of Indigenous filmmaker Erica Tremblay, shares a window of insight on being queer and First Nations. Certain Women star Lily Gladstone plays Jax, a queer Aunty searching for her missing sister Tawi. Also finding herself as an unlikely guardian to her 13-year-old niece Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson), Jax has to step up and get her niece to a powwow. By weaving a story about identity, intergenerational and uniquely Indigenous love, keeping the levity and warmth, rather than focusing on the trauma of life as a colonised people, Tremblay communicates a universal understanding of survival. As Lily Gladstone has remarked in an interview, “We’re doing healing work, making these stories.”
Premiering at Sundance earlier this year, Fancy Dance, the feature film directorial debut of Indigenous filmmaker Erica Tremblay, shares a window of insight on being queer and First Nations. Certain Women star Lily Gladstone plays Jax, a queer Aunty searching for her missing sister Tawi. Also finding herself as an unlikely guardian to her 13-year-old niece Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson), Jax has to step up and get her niece to a powwow. By weaving a story about identity, intergenerational and uniquely Indigenous love, keeping the levity and warmth, rather than focusing on the trauma of life as a colonised people, Tremblay communicates a universal understanding of survival. As Lily Gladstone has remarked in an interview, “We’re doing healing work, making these stories.”
