One of the year’s best reviewed and most honored films (including at the Cinema Eye Honors, Critics Choice Documentary Awards, Gotham Awards and Sundance), “Sugarcane” is a blazing debut documentary from journalists Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie.
The project began as an investigation into the abuse and murder of Indigenous children at Catholic boarding schools in Canada, then acquired a deeper and more personal resonance as NoiseCat explored the past history and present pain of his own family.
The two filmmakers spoke to TheWrap about their film’s cinematic power and how the production could be a catalyst for deeper investigations into the truth.