Lily Gladstone Advocates for 'Fancy Dance' at IndieWire Honors

Despite her recent accolades for 'Killers of the Flower Moon', Gladstone highlights her indie film still without a U.S. distributor.

Lily Gladstone, already on her way to a likely Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance in 'Killers of the Flower Moon', added the Performance Award at the IndieWire Honors to her accolades.
Instead of focusing on her acclaimed role in 'Killers of the Flower Moon', Gladstone used the IndieWire Honors stage to champion her indie film 'Fancy Dance', an Indigenous drama directed by Erica Tremblay that premiered at Sundance last year but is still without a U.S. distributor.
'Fancy Dance' is set on the Seneca–Cayuga Nation Reservation and follows Gladstone as a caretaker searching for her missing sister while helping her niece prepare for an upcoming powwow.
Gladstone expressed her disappointment that 'Fancy Dance', despite being named one of the 17 films most likely to sell big at Sundance by IndieWire, still has no distribution.
Gladstone praised 'Fancy Dance' for its fresh perspective on Native culture, pushing against the cinematic stereotypes that tend to dominate film history.