Romeo San Vicente • 06-30-23
Lily Gladstone Lily Gladstone goes ‘Fancy Dance’-ing We’ve been on the Lily Gladstone bandwagon since she showed up in Kelly Reichardt’s 2016 drama Certain Women, leaving an indelible, heartbreaking mark as a lonely Native woman who quietly yearns for a character played by Kristen Stewart.
She gathered up year-end critics group prizes for that film and earned the attention of Martin Scorsese. Then she made a splash at Cannes co-starring alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Brendan Fraser in Scorsese’s latest film, Killers of the Flower Moon — due in theaters this October — and now her other new film, Fancy Dance, is hitting OutFest this summer.
From filmmaker Erica Tremblay (director of the 2014 roller derby doc In the Women), it’s about a queer Native woman who hits the road with her teenage niece as they search for her missing sister.
No word on when a wider release will happen, but it’s exciting to watch queer filmmakers giving overdue attention to indigenous stories.
