
Cree/Métis
Biography
Danis Goulet is a Cree/Metis writer and director. Her films have screened at festivals around the world including Sundance, Berlin, MoMA and the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). She is a former programmer for TIFF and a former director of the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. She is an alumna of the National Screen Institute and the TIFF Filmmakers lab. She has served as an advisor for Telefilm Canada’s Indigenous Working Group and on the Indigenous Screen Office’s Advisory Circle. Her debut feature NIGHT RAIDERS was developed with the support of the Sundance Institute and selected for the International Financing Forum at TIFF 2018 and the Sundance Institute’s Talent Forum in 2019. Danis is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She is originally from northern Saskatchewan in Canada and now resides in Toronto.