Fancy Dance: Lily Gladstone, Erica Tremblay, & Isabel Deroy-Olson on Murdered Indigenous Women

From award-winning director, Erica Tremblay, Fancy Dance tells the story of the bond between young Roki, played by Isabel Deroy-Olson in her feature debut, and her hustler aunt, Jax (Lily Gladstone). The film made its world premiere to a sold-out Eccles theater at this year’s Sundance Film Festival with the intent to spread awareness of the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, but also as a “love letter” to the often-marginalized heroes of these Native American communities. Fancy Dance highlights these issues by taking place shortly before a mother-daughter Pow Wow Dance, or a Fancy Dance, when Roki’s mother (Hauli Sioux Gray) goes missing from the Seneca-Cayuga Reservation. Roki has been taken into the care of her mother’s sister, Jax, a queer, Indigenous Woman making ends meet by any means necessary, which often includes the two of them performing heists together. Despite law enforcement’s lack of concern in finding their missing mother/sister, CPS is now looking to displace Roki with h