The discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at an Indian residential school in Canada in 2021 was just the catalyst for “Sugarcane.'
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Julian Brave NoiseCat, left, and Emily Kassie, co-directors of the Oscar-nominated documentary film"Sugarcane," pose for a portrait on Main Street during the Sundance Film Festival on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Park City, Utah. Canada’s residential schools were based on similar facilities in the United States, where Catholic and Protestant denominations operated more than 150 boarding schools between the 19th and 20th centuries, according to researchers, that also were home to rampant abuse.
“It was a process for me to ultimately decide to tell the story in a personal and familial way,” said NoiseCat, who during the making of the film lived with his father for the first time since he was around 6 years old.
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