Biography

Danis Goulet is a Cree/Métis 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.

Canada is a very young Country which means our history isn’t just found in museums, it’s found in the oral stories...there is a story that my dad tells that he heard from an elder where in the story it’s referencing the movement of the glaciers, so that is history contained there and so I would think that it is of all interest to all Canadians to have a deeper understanding of this land that we are all on. What a beautiful thing to learn about, and what a beautiful thing to preserve.

—Danis Goulet