On her first day on set, Danis Goulet knew she wanted to be a filmmaker. As she transitioned from casting to head a film festival in Toronto, she saw a potential path to making her own shorts, like Spin, Divided by Zero, Wapawekka, and Barefoot.
Her first full feature as the writer-director, Night Raiders, the story focuses on a mother who joins an underground band of vigilantes to try to rescue her daughter from a state-run institution.
In this interview, Danis talks about approaching films as experiments, failures and successes making shorts, how she used history to write a futuristic film, and her thoughts on being an indigenous storyteller.
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