2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Danis Goulet’s Night Raiders

She saw her short films Spin (2004) and Wapawekka (2011) land at the Sundance Film Festival and so it would be a natural progression of supporting this artist if she preem her feature debut as well. Having served up prestige fests with short film otput, Danis Goulet (NSI Drama Prize) was named an Indigenous Film Fellow of the 2019 Sundance Institute. In October of 2019, Goulet began production on her directorial debut in Toronto – a sci-fi film starring Amanda Plummer, Shaun Sipos, Eric Osborne and another Sundance alumni in topliner Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers. Night Raiders also has Taika Waititi on as executive producer on this Canada-New Zealand Indigenous co-production.

Gist: The story takes place in a dystopian world where a Cree woman joins a group of vigilantes to free her daughter from the state in a military-run North America.

Production Co./Producers: Georgina Allison Conder, Paul Barkin, Ainsley Gardiner, Chelsea Winstanley, Tara Woodbury.

Prediction: MIDNIGHT.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.