The Canadian Press Julian Brave NoiseCat initially didn\u2019t want \u201cSugarcane\u201d to be such a personal film. The Indigenous filmmaker says he intended to remain behind the camera for the Sundance prize-winning documentary, which he co-directed with Toronto\u2019s Emily Kassie. The film is a quietly haunting account of deaths, rapes, suicides and missing children at the former St. Joseph\u2019s Mission Residential School, a Catholic-run facility near Sugar Cane reserve in Williams Lake, B.C. But NoiseCat quickly realized the film would be incomplete if he and his family weren\u2019t part of it. \u201cMy family had stories that cut to the core of the infanticide that happened at St. Joseph’s Mission,\u201d NoiseCat, a member of the Canim Lake Band in British Columbia, says on a recent video call from Martha\u2019s Vineyard, where he… <\/p>\n
The Canadian Press Julian Brave NoiseCat initially didn\u2019t want \u201cSugarcane\u201d to be such a personal film. The Indigenous filmmaker says he intended to remain behind the camera for the Sundance prize-winning documentary, which he co-directed with Toronto\u2019s Emily Kassie. The film is a quietly haunting account of deaths, rapes, suicides and missing children at the former St. Joseph\u2019s Mission Residential School, a Catholic-run facility near Sugar Cane reserve in Williams Lake, B.C. But NoiseCat quickly realized the film would be incomplete if he and his family weren\u2019t part of it. \u201cMy family had stories that cut to the core of the infanticide that happened at St. Joseph’s Mission,\u201d NoiseCat, a member of the Canim Lake Band in British Columbia, says on a recent video call from Martha\u2019s Vineyard, where he... <\/p>\n