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

From awardwinning director, Erica Tremblay, Fancy Dance tells the story of the bond between young Roki, played by Isabel DeroyOlson in her feature debut, and her hustler aunt, Jax (Lily Gladstone). The film made its world premiere to a soldout Eccles theater at this years 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 oftenmarginalized heroes of these Native American communities. Fancy Dance highlights these issues by taking place shortly before a motherdaughter Pow Wow Dance, or a Fancy Dance, when Rokis mother (Hauli Sioux Gray) goes missing from the SenecaCayuga Reservation. Roki has been taken into the care of her mothers 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 enforcements lack of concern in finding their missing mother, sister, CPS is now looking to displace Roki with h