Danis Goulet

Country: Canada

Films directed by Danis Goulet

Spin (2003)
Divided by Zero (2006)
Wapawekka (2010)
Barefoot (2012) (also known as: "Désir d'enfant", "Wunsch Kind")
Wakening (2013)
Night Raiders (2021) (also known as: "Les voleurs de la nuit")

Quotes by Danis Goulet

"I [...] want to be part of our communities seeing themselves on screen—the power of that can't be overestimated, especially when we have historically been excluded from the privilege of telling stories through cinema. To watch people, both Indigenous and not, go into a theatre and come out with their minds totally blown or transformed—I want to contribute to that."
-- Danis Goulet (source)

"Indigenous people need to be represented across the industry as film festival programmers, broadcasters, distributors, producers, all across the board. We need Indigenous crew in all levels of crew, so that there's a greater Indigenous presence on set. That's really important to the way we tell our stories. I totally subscribed to the Indigenous Screen Office's call where, when it comes to Indigenous stories, it's 'nothing about us without us.'"
-- Danis Goulet (source)

"Saskatchewan is home, full stop. But the Indigenous screen community that has become the people that I've grown up with once I relocated to Toronto has really been a source of strength and inspiration throughout all of the ups and downs."
-- Danis Goulet (source)

"To me, language contains world views and universes and it is rich and it is where we find our heritage. When I develop my projects, I just sit around the kitchen table with my dad and he just talks to me about Cree concepts and I ask him questions about language. And it is not a translation process; it is like a process of trying my best, as not a first-language speaker, to understand the philosophical implications of things."
-- Danis Goulet (source)

Quote by Danis Goulet [in French]

"Notre histoire a toujours été faussement racontée au cinéma et cette représentation a contribué à perpétuer des préjugés très tenaces. Il est maintenant temps de [raconter notre histoire] correctement. Sur ce plan, je sens une grande responsabilité, ce qui accentue la pression. J'aimerais bien que ce ne soit pas le cas, mais je n'ai pas le choix."
-- Danis Goulet (source)

For QUOTES about a specific film by Danis Goulet, please see: Divided by Zero Wapawekka Barefoot Wakening Night Raiders

Notes about Danis Goulet

Director, screenwriter, producer, and festival programmer.
Cree/Metis, originally from La Ronge, Saskatchewan.

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Bibliography for Danis Goulet

Section 1: Publications about Danis Goulet

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

Levy, Bryn. "Indigenous storyteller Danis Goulet drives change in Canada's film industry." Interview with Danis Goulet. Saskatoon Star Phoenix, October 7, 2021.
Schneller, Johanna. "Four Indigenous filmmakers redefine Canadian film." Interview with Alanis Obomsawin, Danis Goulet, Bretten Hannam, Rhayne Vermette. Globe and Mail, September 9, 2021.

Section 2: Publications about the Films of Danis Goulet

Spin (2003)

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

Chung, Jennifer. "Film-maker's head 'Spin'ning after Park City." Interview with Danis Goulet. Windspeaker, March 2004.

Divided by Zero (2006)

Brief Sections of Dissertations

Kalbfleisch, Elizabeth Claire. "The Home and the Unhomely: Women, House, and Home in Contemporary Native Art." In "Bordering on Feminism: Home and Transnational Sites in Recent Visual Culture and Native Women's Art." PhD diss., University of Rochester, 2009. (pp. 195-199)

Wapawekka (2010)

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

Fuller, Cam. "Filmmaker looks forward to Sundance." Interview with Danis Goulet. Saskatoon Star Phoenix, December 15, 2010.
Grebinski, Leisha. "Indigenous filmmaker depicts gap between generations." Saskatchewan Sage, vol. 15, no. 2, November 2010.

Barefoot (2012) (also known as: "Désir d'enfant", "Wunsch Kind")

Brief Sections of Books

Western, Jenny. "Mother Me." In Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada, edited by Heather Davis. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. (pp. 187-189)

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

Ball, David P. "Barefoot hits the film fest circuit." Interview with Danis Goulet. Windspeaker, October 2012.
Fuller, Cam. "Danis Goulet returns to TIFF with Barefoot." Regina Leader-Post, September 11, 2012.

Wakening (2013)

Journal Articles

Monani, Salma. "Feeling and Healing Eco-social Catastrophe: The 'Horrific' Slipstream of Danis Goulet's Wakening." Paradoxa 28 (2016): 192-213.

Brief Sections of Journal Articles

Hunt, Dallas. "'In Search of Our Better Selves': Totem Transfer Narratives and Indigenous Futurities." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 42, no. 1 (2018). (pp. 81-83)
Mackey, Allison. "Guilty Speculations: The Affective Climate of Global Anthropocene Fictions." Science Fiction Studies 45, no. 3 (2018). (pp. 532-534)
Topash-Caldwell, Blaire. "Sovereign Futures in Neshnabé Speculative Fiction." Borderlands 19, no. 2 (2020). (pp. 43-45)

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

Donkin, Karissa. "Monster occupies Toronto theatres in film; Elgin and Winter Garden play starring role in film commissioned to commemorate theatres' 100th anniversary." Interview with Danis Goulet. Toronto Star, August 30, 2013.

Night Raiders (2021) (also known as: "Les voleurs de la nuit")

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

Ahearn, Victoria. "Director explores colonization through sci-fi lens; Indigenous thriller Night Raiders opening across Canada." Interview with Danis Goulet. Victoria Times Colonist, October 9, 2021.
Asenap, Jason. "'Night Raiders' imagines a horrific dystopian future. Its inspiration is America's real past; Writer-director Danis Goulet's new film shines a light on a raw wound from which Indigenous cultures are still healing." Review of Night Raiders. Esquire, November 12, 2021.
Cornet, Derek. "'This is a big moment': La Ronge filmmaker hosting special screening of feature-length movie." La Ronge Now, November 29, 2021.
Demers, Maxime. "Un film futuriste sur les pensionnats autochtones." Interview with Danis Goulet. Journal de Montréal, October 9, 2021. [in French]
Dove-Viebahn, Aviva. "In Indigenous thriller 'Night Raiders,' Danis Goulet blends history, sci-fi, legend and reality." Review of Night Raiders. Ms., September 17, 2021.
Girish, Devika. "Night Raiders." Review of Night Raiders. New York Times, November 12, 2021.
Grierson, Tim. "Night Raiders: Berlin review." Review of Night Raiders. Screen International, March 2, 2021.
Hertz, Barry. "Chilling sci-fi thriller Night Raiders sets fire to Canadian history." Review of Night Raiders. Globe and Mail, October 5, 2021.
Hertz, Barry. "Indigenous filmmaker Danis Goulet's Night Raiders pulls from Canada's past to create a terrifying future." Interview with Danis Goulet. Globe and Mail, March 3, 2021.
Hollywood Reporter. "'Sci-fi is an amazing genre to Trojan-horse issues we may find difficult to talk about'." Hollywood Reporter, vol. 427, no. 8, February 24, 2021.
1, Tatiana. "Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers Interview: Night Raiders; Night Raiders star Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers chats about the dystopian world of her new sci-fi thriller, and how real its story actually is." Interview with Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers. Screen Rant, November 17, 2021.
King, Randall. "Canadian flick prevails on strength of acting, directing." Review of Night Raiders. Winnipeg Free Press, October 8, 2021.
King, Randall. "Dark truths." Interview with Danis Goulet. Winnipeg Free Press, October 2, 2021.
King, Randall. "Winnipeg-born producer 'a fierce warrior'." Interview with Tara Woodbury, Danis Goulet. Winnipeg Free Press, October 5, 2021.
Knight, Chris. "Danis Goulet's film a first for New Zealand-Canada Indigenous co-operation: Night Raiders, now in post-production, is co-produced by Taika Waititi." Interview with Danis Goulet. National Post, June 26, 2020.
Knight, Chris. "Horrors of past persist; Night Raiders is a milestone in Indigenous cinema." Review of Night Raiders. Vancouver Sun, October 8, 2021.
Knight, Chris. "Not only from the past; Film threads history, present and future together in an indigenous sci-fi tale." Interview with Danis Goulet. National Post, September 14, 2021.
Laskaris, Adam. "New thriller Night Raiders now in theatres across Canada." Interview with Danis Goulet. Toronto Star, October 8, 2021.
Lévesque, François. "Le futur antérieur de Danis Goulet." Interview with Danis Goulet. Le Devoir, October 2, 2021. [in French]
Lussier, Marc-André. "Danis Goulet : remettre les pendules à l'heure." Interview with Danis Goulet. La Presse, October 7, 2021. [in French]
Lussier, Marc-André. "Night Raiders : c'est plus que du cinéma." Review of Night Raiders. La Presse, October 8, 2021. [in French]
Murray, Noel. "Review: The not-so-distant future carries a dire warning in sci-fi thriller 'Night Raiders'." Review of Night Raiders. Los Angeles Times, November 11, 2021.
Pacheco, Paloma. "'Night Raiders' broaches residential school trauma through dystopic sci-f: filmmaker Danis Goulet on her newest work, and coping with painful truths through fiction." Interview with Danis Goulet. The Tyee, October 1, 2021.
Le, Phuong. "Night Raiders review—search for Native American children turns dystopian sci-fi." Review of Night Raiders. Guardian, November 29, 2021.
Playback. "Director of the Year: Danis Goulet; Her dystopian debut feature film Night Raiders made a celebrated trip around the film circuit and broke box office records." Interview with Danis Goulet. Playback, Winter 2021.
Punter, Jennie. "Danis Goulet talks 'Night Raiders,' global Indigenous film community." Interview with Danis Goulet. Variety, September 12, 2021.
Sarfati, Sonia. "Night Raiders : poignante métaphore du passé autochtone." Review of Night Raiders. Le Devoir, October 8, 2021. [in French]
Schilling, Vincent. "'Night Raiders' is a dystopian future of residential school horrors: TIFF acclaimed Indigenous director Danis Goulet creates a masterful work of film starring Elle-Majia Tailfeathers and Brooklyn Letexier-Hart." Indian Country Today, November 17, 2021.
Simonpillai, Radheyan. "Night Raiders director Danis Goulet on why setting Indigenous stories in the future is activism; The former ImagineNATIVE executive director discusses making room for children and paving the way for Indigenous storytelling in Canada." Interview with Danis Goulet. Now (Toronto), March 2, 2021.
Smith, Janet. "Night Raiders director Danis Goulet draws on Cree heritage, painful residential-school legacy for dystopian thriller; Her film opens this weekend with the widest release of any Indigenous Canadian feature." Interview with Danis Goulet. Stir: Arts & Culture Vancouver, October 9, 2021.
Ward, Dennis. "Filmmaker Danis Goulet and the re-writing 100 years of Hollywood misconceptions." Interview with Danis Goulet. APTN News, December 7, 2021.
Weaver, Jackson. "How Night Raiders uses science fiction to examine the past: Dystopian film set in near future takes on history of Canada's residential schools." CBC, October 10, 2021.
Wieland, Laurie. "Les voleurs de la nuit : la science-fiction pour recadrer le réel." Review of Night Raiders. Le Soleil (Québec), October 8, 2021. [in French]
Wilner, Norman. "Review: Night Raiders is a dystopian thriller that feels utterly of the moment." Review of Night Raiders. Now (Toronto), October 8, 2021.