Emily Kassie
@emilykassie
Filmmaker & Investigative Journalist 🌎 🎥 Director/Producer, SUGARCANE
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SUGARCANE is now a Nat Geo Docs film! (Which technically makes Emily Kassie and me Disney kids.)
Couldn't have found a better partner and home for our film.
Coming soon to a film festival, movie theatre and Disney+ subscription near you.
deadline.com/2024/02/nat-ge…
For decades Indigenous communities have been fighting to tell this story. Julian Brave NoiseCat and I are thrilled that SUGARCANE will help bring their voices to the world with Nat Geo Docs on Disney+.
This epic, intimate and urgent story has found its home.
businesswire.com/news/home/2024…
🎉 Congratulations to New America Fellows Program Julian Brave NoiseCat (@jnoisecat) (2022) and @EmilyKassie (2023)! They were awarded the Directing Award: U.S. Documentary at this year's Sundance Film Festival for their film Sugarcane.
🎥 Read @Deadline's review of Sugarcane: bit.ly/4bhlKAd
Emily Kassie has won a coveted Sundance Film Festival Award for co-directing a film on abuse at a residential school for Indigenous young people in Canada - gatescambridge.org/about/news/gat… Emily Kassie @POLIS St John's College, Cambridge GatesCambridgeAlumni
'Sugarcane' documents the legacy of the segregated St. Joseph school, one of many promulgated by the Canadian govt. and run by the Catholic Church. Julian Brave NoiseCat & Emily Kassie discuss this testament to survival and renewal despite deep, still-ongoing pain. bit.ly/3SI4tsX
Congratulations to Watson alum and filmmaker Emily Kassie '14 for receiving the Sundance Film Festival Directing Award for her latest feature documentary, Sugarcane!
So proud of Gates Cambridge scholar Emily Kassie investigative journalist and filmmaker extraordinaire. Congratulations!
Review by selectiveecho #Sundance2024 Sundance 2024: Superlative and gripping, Sugarcane takes viewers to elucidating plane of empathy, truth, reconciliation #INDIGENOUS theutahreview.com/sundance-2024-…
Congratulations to Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie. Their masterful storytelling brings to light the complex and horrible realities of St. Joseph’s Boarding School, guiding viewers through a profoundly moving exploration of the lasting impacts of colonialism.
Congratulations to IDA Members Kellen Quinn (Kellen Quinn) and Stephen Maing (@mainmaing) at #Sundance2024 . The Directing Award: U.S. Documentary was presented to Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie for 'Sugarcane,' produced by Quinn. A U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award
Online screenings for #Sundance2024 start on the 25th, so Jacob Oller picked 10 movies available for at-home viewing that are worth your time: pastemagazine.com/movies/sundanc…