Brett Story is an award-winning filmmaker and writer based in Toronto. Her films have screened in theatres and festivals internationally, including at CPH-DOX, SXSW, True/False, and Sheffield Doc/Fest. She is the director of the award-winning films The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016) and The Hottest August (2019), and author of the book Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power Across Neoliberal America.

Emily Kassie is an Emmy and Peabody nominated filmmaker and investigative journalist. Her feature documentary Sugarcane, directed alongside Julian Brave NoiseCat, follows a search for unmarked graves at a former Indian residential school. Sugarcane, which Kassie also served as a producer and cinematographer, premiered in competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Directing Award for Documentary.

Julian Brave NoiseCat is a writer and filmmaker. His first documentary, SUGARCANE, directed alongside Emily Kassie, is set to premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. A member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq’escen, NoiseCat is concurrently finishing his first book, We Survived the Night, for Alfred A. Knopf.

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