EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has a new clip from the Indigenous family dramaFancy Dance, marking the narrative feature directorial debut of Erica Tremblay (Reservation Dogs), which last Friday headed to SXSW for its Texas premiere after world premiering to critical acclaim at Sundance.
The film tells the…
Erica Tremblay's Fancy Dance shows the darkside of reservation life for Indigenous people, especially women. As an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Fancy Dance it's a unique viewing experience as the viewer is brought in to observe these characters…
FANCY DANCESection: PremieresDirector: Erica TremblayScreenwriter: Erica TremblayLogline: 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 finding her…
EXCLUSIVE: Production is underway for Fancy Dance in Cherokee Nation/Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
Based on a script by director Erica Tremblay & Miciana Alise, Fancy Dance was developed with the support of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, Directors Lab, Creative Producing Lab and Indigenous Intensive. Charlotte Koh for…
EXCLUSIVE: Basketball legend and activist Jaci McCormack has teamed up with award-winning writer Erica Tremblay (Little Chief, Yellow Bird) of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation to pen Rise Above, a feature film about the challenges and triumph and how her love of basketball protected and elevated her through it all.
The film…
EXCLUSIVE: One day after the Season 1 finale of Reservation Dogs launched on FX on Hulu, the dramady opened up its writers room for Season 2 – and they're going large.
Almost doubling in size, the all-Indigenous staffed room will also see star Devery Jacobs stepping behind the camera too for the next season.
"She's…