Fancy Dance director reflects on working with ‘incredible talent’ Lily Gladstone

Native American filmmaker Erica Tremblay wrote the script of her first feature-length film specifically for Lily Gladstone, and she’s more than happy with how the role turned out. 

Fancy Dance follows Oscar-nominated Killers of the Flower Moon LGBTQ+ star Gladstone as Jax, a woman raising her 13-year-old niece Roki (Isabel DeRoy-Olson), whose mother has gone missing.

Set largely on the Seneca–Cayuga reservation in Oklahoma, the film reflects the authorities’, and general public’s, indifference to the prevalence of violence against Native women. While the legal system is lax its attempts to find Jax’s sister, it’s aggressive in its determination to bring Jax herself to justice when she steals from white people.

Beyond the oppression felt by Native women, both in Fancy Dance and reality, Tremblay wanted to push focus on to

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