Interview With "Sugarcane" Directors Julian Brave NoiseCat & Emily Kassie

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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"Sugarcane" had its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Award for Directing for directors Julian Brave NoiseCat & Emily Kassie. The documentary follows an investigation into the Canadian Indian residential school system, sparking a profound reckoning for survivors and their descendants. Julian Brave NoiseCat & Emily Kassie were kind enough to lend us some time to talk about their experience making the film. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in limited release in the United States and Canada and will expand to other cities starting August 16th by National Geographic Documentary Films through Variance Films in the United States and Films We Like in Canada. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Imagine a breakfast wrap.
0:03.1	You know the one, because there really is only one.
0:07.6	Sausage, egg, cheese, bacon and a potato rusty all wrapped together.
0:13.2	Yep, there it is.
0:15.4	I think my work here is done.
0:18.5	Serve them until 11 a.m.
0:19.9	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast,
0:23.2	and this is Daniel Howitt's interview,
0:25.6	with the directors for Sugar King,
0:27.8	Julian Brave Noise Cat, and Emily Cassie.
0:30.8	I have felt dirty as Indian all my life in residential school.
0:36.0	Look at that. It's all names.
0:39.3	When you're brought up in an institution like the Catholic Church,
0:43.3	you have strict rules and you went with their ethics.
0:47.3	I've been trying to find out what happened at St. Joseph's mission.
0:59.4	Everything was so secretive.
1:02.9	My dad was born there.
1:07.5	Julian and Emily, thank you so much for taking the time to talk with me about the film.
1:08.8	There's so much to impact.
1:09.8	I appreciate your time.
1:11.6	Let's talk about how the film came to be. Julian, I've heard you say that when Emily first approached you about this film,
1:18.4	you were hesitant to explore your family's own history with these schools. How did you overcome
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