‘Sugarcane’ Filmmakers Still Have Questions About Infant Deaths At St. Joseph’s Indian Residential School – Contenders Documentary

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In their documentary Sugarcane, directors Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat investigate decades of child abuse and missing children at St.

Joseph’s Indian Residential School. It uncovers cases of infants thrown in incinerators and buried in unmarked graves. Although the film provided some answers, the filmmakers say the government still is concealing important records.

President Biden publicly apologized for the U.S. boarding school policy in October, after the film premiered at Sundance this year. RELATED: 2024-25 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Oscars, Spirits, Grammys, Tonys, Guilds & More “That was so profound to hear,” Kassie said of the apology, speaking on a panel with NoiseCat at Deadline’s Contenders Documentary event. “At the same time, they haven’t opened the records.

They haven’t opened the records to Indigenous communities so that at the very least, the truth can be known. And there’s a question of what justice or reparations might look like.