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    • Lily Gladstone leads 'Fancy Dance' to the big screen
    • When: 'Fancy Dance' opens in select theaters June 21 and streams globally on Apple TV+ June 28.
    • What to know: Lily Gladstone stars as a woman taking care of her niece while searching for her own missing sister and preparing for an upcoming tribal gathering.
    • The Oscar nominee told CBS News it’s the “most important” role of her career.
    • “Forget the white-savior narrative: Fancy Dance brings visibility to the 'Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women' crisis, as well as struggles that modern Native Americans face today — all through the lens of Indigenous filmmakers and stars,” editor-writer Laura Clark told me after watching the film.
    • Why I’ll be watching: If you’re not on the Gladstone hype train yet, you’re running late. It’s not slowing down any time soon!
    • — Kelsey Weekman
    • June 19, 2024
  2. Jun 28, 2024 · With Lily Gladstone, Isabel Deroy-Olson, Blayne Allen, Michael Rowe. Following her sister's disappearance, a Native American hustler kidnaps her niece from the child's white grandparents and sets out for the state powwow in hopes of keeping what is left of their family intact.

  3. Fancy Dance is a 2023 American drama film directed by Erica Tremblay (in her feature narrative directorial debut), from a screenplay by Tremblay and Miciana Alise. It stars Lily Gladstone, Isabel DeRoy-Olson and Shea Whigham. Fancy Dance premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2023.

  4. Jun 21, 2024 · Despite its soft sentimentality, “Fancy Dance” is a film about resistance against a careless, racist government that thrives on assimilation and cultural amnesia. The same FBI that made its good name off of the murders of Osage people no longer cares to undo the harm caused by racism and greed.

  5. Since her sister's disappearance, Jax (Lily Gladstone) has cared for her niece Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson) by scraping by on the Seneca-Cayuga reservation in Oklahoma. Every spare minute goes into ...

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  6. May 8, 2024 · The bond between an Indigenous girl and her aunt proves stronger than ever when their loved one goes missing. Lily Gladstone stars in Fancy Dance, directed by Erica Tremblay, streaming June 28...

  7. Jun 28, 2024 · Fancy Dance starring Lily Gladstone and Isabel Deroy-Olson shows the dark side of life on a reservation for Indigenous Native American women. It follows hustler Jax (Lily Gladstone), a former drug dealer who has cared for her niece Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson) since her sister, Roki’s mother Tawi (Hauli Gray), went missing.

  8. Jun 21, 2024 · Mother and daughter had been preparing a dance for the upcoming powwow in Tulsa, and Roki — who boasts a guileless smile — hasn’t been dissuaded by her aunt that anything is amiss.

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