Oscar-nominated actress Lily Gladstone is pleased that Indigenous people are getting better representation on the silver screen, including in her new film “Fancy Dance,” but warns there is an “ongoing genocide” of Native Americans that must be addressed.
The film — which premiered at the Sundance festival last year but is now hitting a limited number of theaters this month, and will stream on Apple TV+ from June 28 — is a work of fiction but feels like a documentary. Faced with the FBI’s indifference and the lack of resources available to her brother, a cop on the reservation, Jax tries to find her sister herself and ultimately hits the road with Roki, who hopes to find her mother at a huge powwow ceremony.In the state of Oregon, the disappearances of Indigenous women were deemed an “emergency” in 2019 in official reports, but more than four years later, not much progress has been made, according to the independent outlet InvestigateWest.
“Fancy Dance” — which was written, produced, directed, and largely acted by Indigenous women — takes a stark look at how Indigenous women navigate a world and a justice system that often fails them.Erica Tremblay, a documentary filmmaker who is making her fiction feature debut with “Fancy Dance,” is a member of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation. She too worries about the epidemic of murders and disappearances.
InvestigateWest, citing official estimates, puts the number of unsolved cases of Indigenous people missing or murdered across the United States in the thousands.“Genocide doesn’t stop until it either accomplishes its goal or the bad actors stop it. And there’s an ongoing genocide that’s still happening in modern America that we aren’t talking about,” Tremblay said.
Source: Entertainment Trends (entertainmenttrends.net)
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