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b'\\u201cPower has never given up without a fight. Indigenous people are in a unique position to offer a warning.\\u201d\\nDanis Goulet is the writer and director of NIGHT RAIDERS - a near future dystopian fiction that is in theaters and on-demand now. Night Raiders tells the tale of an indigenous (Cree) mother and daughter - played by Elle-M\\xe1ij\\xe1 Tailfeathers + Brooklyn Letexier-Hart - making their way through the aftermath of a modern day civil war - where all children are being taken by the state. The film is allegory for 20th century residential school systems - North American government programs that pulled away 150,000 Indigenous children from their parents - dispersing them amongst Christian boarding schools and cutting all ties with their heritage. We\\u2019re talking about moder day colonization of culture - which has recently given rise to the \\u201cIdol No More\\u201d movement. Night Raiders was executive produced by Taika Watiti (another prominent indiginous filmmaker) - and as Danis\\u2019 first feature film is a powerful story.\\nDanis is Cree/Metis - and was born in La Ronge, Saskatchewan and now resides in Toronto. Her films have screened at festivals around the world including Sundance, the Toronto International Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, - as well as the imagineNATIVE festival - where she is actively involved. After this conversation about fitting in and speaking out - and the dangers of what modern day white supremacy means for our future - you\\u2019ll want to go see her film yesterday.\\nLEARN MORE ABOUT NIGHT RAIDERS\\n\\nTRAILER: youtu.be/jijeDvc4aG4\\n\\nIMDB: imdb.com/title/tt9568230\\n\\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nightraidersfilm/\\n\\n\\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/nightraiders7\\n\\n\\nFOLLOW DANIS GOULET\\n\\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/danisgoulet\\n\\n\\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/danisgoulet\\n\\n\\nMENTIONS\\n\\nFILM: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001): imdb.com/title/tt0285441\\n\\n\\nimagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival: imaginenative.org\\n\\n\\nFILM: Where the Spirit Lives (1989): imdb.com/title/tt0103244\\n\\n\\nPERSON: Alanis Obomsawin (\\u2018the grandmother of Indigenous cinema): cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/50-years-of-indigenous-cinema-the-impact-of-alanis-obomsawin-1.5154592\\n\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'