Festival Predictions

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

Published on November 20, 2020

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.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).