Dance Me Outside

Overview

Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the rape and murder of an Indian girl by a drunken thug. When the killer received a lenient two-year sentence for manslaughter, the First Nations community felt shock and anger—and tried desperately to deal with the after-effects of this lack of justice.

Directed by Bruce McDonald

Top cast

Ryan Rajendra Black

Silas Crow

Adam Beach

Frank Fencepost

Jennifer Podemski

Sadie Maracle

Lisa LaCroix

Illianna

K

Kevin Hicks

Robert McVey

R

Rose Marie Trudeau

Ma Crow

G

Gloria May Eshkibok

Mad Etta

S

Selim Running Bear Sandoval

Robert Coyote

Sandrine Holt

Poppy

Tamara Podemski

Little Margaret

H

Herbie Barnes

Joseph

Hugh Dillon

Clarence Gaskill

V

Vince Manitowabi

Hobart Thunder

R

Robert Frank Pegahmagabow

Wendel

Michael Greyeyes

Gooch

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