Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone
Apple Original Films has announced that the critically acclaimed feature “Fancy Dance,” starring Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone, will premiere in select UK and Irish cinemas and stream globally on Apple TV+ from 28 June, 2024. The film is the directorial debut from director/co-writer Erica Tremblay, who also co-wrote and produced the film.
Synopsis
Since her sister’s disappearance, Jax (Lily Gladstone) has cared for her niece Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson) by scraping by within their Tribal Land. Every spare minute goes into finding her missing sister while also helping Roki prepare for an upcoming powwow. At the risk of Jax losing custody to Roki’s grandfather, Frank (Shea Whigham), the pair hit the road and scour the backcountry to track down Roki’s mother in time for the powwow.
What begins as a search gradually turns into a far deeper investigation into the complexities and contradictions of Indigenous women moving through a colonized world while at the mercy of a failed justice system. Gladstone stars alongside Isabel Deroy-Olson, Ryan Begay, Crystle Lightning, with Audrey Wasilewski and Shea Whigham.
Cast: Lily Gladstone, Isabel Deroy-Olson, Ryan Begay, Shea Whigham, Audrey Wasilewski
Director & Writer: Erica Tremblay
Writer: Miciana Alise
Producers: Deidre Backs, Erica Tremblay, Heather Rae, Nina Yang Bongiovi and Tommy Oliver
Executive Producers: Lily Gladstone, Bird Runningwater, Charlotte Koh and Forest Whitaker
Apple Original Films
Momentum around the Apple Original Films slate continues to grow since the debut of Apple TV+ four years ago. In addition to Apple making history as the first streaming service to land the Academy Award for Best Picture with “CODA,” Apple Original Film “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” also recently earned the Academy Award for Best Animated Short, “Killers of the Flower Moon” recently landed 10 historic Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, and “Napoleon,” from Ridley Scott, landed three Oscar nominations.
Highly anticipated Apple Original Films include an upcoming Jon Watts thriller starring Academy Award winners George Clooney and Brad Pitt who will both produce under Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures and Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment; “The Instigators,” a heist-gone-wrong film starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck for director Doug Liman; “Blitz,” from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Sir Steve McQueen; an untitled Formula 1 feature film starring Brad Pitt from director Joseph Kosinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer; and more.
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