Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Sugarcane’ Gets White House Screening; Pres. Biden Praises Film For Shining Light On “Shameful Chapter” Of History
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The Oscar-contending documentary Sugarcane has received the rare honor of a White House screening, with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and other dignitaries in attendance.
Directors Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie were accompanied by several of the film’s participants at the event on Tuesday evening (it took place at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House but is considered an official White House screening).
The film investigates the abuse and disappearance of Indigenous children who attended a so-called Indian Residential School in British Columbia, part of network of such schools in Canada and the U.S.
that operated for over a century. On October 25, President Biden traveled to the Gila River Indian Reservation in Arizona to offer a historic apology for the federal government’s role in supporting the boarding schools that were designed to deprive Indigenous children of their languages, customs, and identity.
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