5:38 p.m. June 24, 2024: An earlier version of this article stated that “Fancy Dance” premiered at the 2021 Sundance festival. It premiered there in 2023. For filmmaker Erica Tremblay, “Fancy Dance” ...

As the festival hit finally makes its way to bigger audiences, filmmaker Tremblay and star Gladstone reflect on its path — and where it will go next — with IndieWire. When it comes to the creative ...

Even as “Reservation Dogs” and “Dark Winds” have brought Native American stories to television, Indigenous films have remained scarce. But Erica Tremblay, who is a member of the Seneca Cayuga Nation, ...

Carla Hay of Culture Mix notes, “’Fancy Dance’ is a well-acted story of Native American culture and law enforcement’s treatment of cases involving missing Native American women, who are rarely the ...

Familiarity was at the heart of Erica Tremblay’s storytelling for AppleTV+’s “Fancy Dance.” “Dark Winds” and “Reservations Dog” director Tremblay (Seneca–Cayuga) wanted to work with people she loved, ...

Some movies make a lasting impact. No matter what, there isn’t a week you don’t think about them. Erica Tremblay’s “Fancy Dance” is one of those films. The drama, starring Lily Gladstone and Isabel ...

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In the AppleTV+ family drama “Fancy Dance,” 13-year-old Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson) asks her aunt Jax (Lily Gladstone) what the Cayuga language word for “aunt” is. It’s a variation on the word for ...

Part road movie, part coming-of-age story, and part noir police procedural, the quietly confident Fancy Dance marks the feature debut of Erica Tremblay, a documentary filmmaker who also wrote and ...

The parade of smaller independent features continues to bump up against the blockbusters as the Summer continues to sizzle. Here’s a quirky drama that has similar themes to the modestly budgeted ...