Making inroads. Fostering change. Authenticity in storytelling. These are the words that come to mind after viewing Fancy Dance, a film focused on Native Americans, a community sorely underserved and ...
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, ...
Although Oklahoma native Erica Tremblay's movie "Fancy Dance" focuses on the harsh realities of the missing and murdered Indigenous people crisis, the Seneca-Cayuga filmmaker did incorporate at least ...
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 ...