Fancy Dance

Program:

Festival of festivals

Year:

2023

Country:

USA

Genre:

Fiction

Duration:

90’

Since her sister’s disappearance, Jax has cared for her niece Roki by scraping by on the Seneca-Cayuga Reservation in Oklahoma. Every spare minute goes into finding her missing sister, while also helping Roki prepare for an upcoming powwow. At the risk of losing custody to Jax’s grandfather, Frank, the pair hit the road and scour the backcountry to track down Roki’s mother in time for the powwow. What begins as a search gradually turns into a far deeper investigation into the complexities and contradictions of Indigenous women moving through a colonized world and at the mercy of a failed justice system.

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Erica Tremblay

Erica Tremblay (born 1980) is a Seneca-Cayuga American documentary film director.

She worked as an executive story editor on RESERVATION DOGS at FX, where she directed her 1st TV episode. In 2021, she was awarded a number of fellowships, including Walter Bernstein Screenwriting Fellowship. In addition to writing & directing, she's also studying her indigenous language.

In 2023, Tremblay made her feature directorial debut with the drama film FANCY DANCE, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival

Filmography: Reservation Dogs (2022-2023), Dark Winds (2022), Little Chief (2020), In the Turn (2014), Heartland: A Portrait of Survival (2012), Tiny Red Universe (2007)

Creative team

Director

Erica Tremblay

Screenplay

Erica Tremblay, Miciana Alise

Camera

Carolina Costa

Editing

Robert Grigsby Wilson

Production design

Charlotte Royer

Music