16 Facts About Danis Goulet

Danis Goulet was born on 1977 and is a Cree-Metis film director and screenwriter from Canada, whose debut feature film Night Raiders premiered in 2021.

Danis Goulet's Nehinuw father, Keith, was an MLA, and is a fluent Nehinuwehin speaker who grew up living a trapping, hunting, fishing and gathering lifestyle in the Cree community of Cumberland House.

Danis Goulet was assistant to the casting director for a CBC miniseries about the life of Chief Big Bear that was filming in Regina, a job she got when her mother was asked for help finding extras for the film.

Danis Goulet worked in the film industry in Saskatchewan and Alberta for the next two years.

Danis Goulet moved to Toronto in the early 2000s to study at the Canadian Film Centre.

Danis Goulet attended a filmmaking workshop in New York, which led to her creating her first short film.

Danis Goulet has since directed a number of films, including Spin, Divided by Zero, Wapawekka, Barefoot, Wakening, and Night Raiders.

In 2013, Danis Goulet co-authored a report for Telefilm Canada about the lack of Indigenous feature film production in the country.

Danis Goulet served for a number of years as artistic director of the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival.

Danis Goulet was a consulting producer on the 2020 television series Trickster, but resigned from the show after the emergence of allegations that series creator Michelle Latimer had misrepresented her Indigenous identity.

Danis Goulet began writing Night Raiders in 2013 after her science-fiction short Wakening inspired her to experiment more with the genre.

Danis Goulet stated that the film was inspired in large part by Indigenous resistance movements.

Night Raiders, directed by Danis Goulet, was produced by New Zealand film director Taika Waititi.

Danis Goulet was announced as the 2021 recipient of TIFF's Emerging Talent Award.

Danis Goulet was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, winning Best Original Screenplay.

Danis Goulet directed the fourth episode of the second season of Reservation Dogs.