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Friday, February 7 2025

Apple Original Films this week celebrated the premiere of “Fancy Dance,” which will debut in select theaters on June 21 before premiering globally on Apple TV+ on June 28.

Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone was joined by her co-stars Isabel Deroy-Olson, Ryan Begay, Crystle Lightning and Audrey Wasilewski; director/producer/co-writer Erica Tremblay, co-writer Miciana Alise; producers Deidre Backs, Heather Rae, Nina Yang Bongiovi and Tommy Oliver; and executive producers Bird RunningWater and Charlotte Koh.

(L-R) Crystle Lightning, Audrey Wasilewski, Ryan Begay, Charlotte Koh (Exec Producer), Deidre Backs (Producer), Miciana Alise (Co-Writer), Nina Yang Bongiovi (Producer), Isabel Deroy-Olson, Lily Gladstone, Tommy Oliver (Producer), Matt Dentler, Erica Tremblay (Director, Co-Writer, Producer), Heather Rae (Producer) and Bird RunningWater (Exec Producer) attends the Apple Original Films premiere of “Fancy Dance” at the DGA New York Theater. (Photo credit: AppleTV+)
(L-R) Crystle Lightning, Audrey Wasilewski, Ryan Begay, Charlotte Koh (Exec Producer), Deidre Backs (Producer), Miciana Alise (Co-Writer), Nina Yang Bongiovi (Producer), Isabel Deroy-Olson, Lily Gladstone, Tommy Oliver (Producer), Matt Dentler, Erica Tremblay (Director, Co-Writer, Producer), Heather Rae (Producer) and Bird RunningWater (Exec Producer) attends the Apple Original Films premiere of “Fancy Dance” at the DGA New York Theater. (Photo credit: AppleTV+)

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, U.S.A. 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.

Check out the trailer below.

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John Liang

John Liang is an Adult Third Culture Kid who grew up in Guatemala, Costa Rica, the United States, Morocco and Egypt before graduating high school. He has a bachelor's degree in languages from Georgetown University and a master's in International Policy Studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Liang has covered the U.S. military for two decades as a writer and editor for InsideDefense.com, and is also editor-in-chief of Culturs Magazine. He lives in Arlington, Va., U.S.A.

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