Oscar contender ‘Sugarcane’ secures premieres on NatGeo, Disney+ and Huly

EXCLUSIVE: Sugarcanethe Oscar-contending documentary about the horrific legacy of Indian residential schools in North America will debut on National Geographic on Monday, December 9, and will begin streaming the following day on Disney+ and Hulu.

Film directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat AND Emilia Kasia won several awards at festivals, including: at Sundance, where he won the Directing Award for an American documentary. On Monday, the film was nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Documentary, and last week the film received eight top nominations for the award Critics Choice Awards for documentaries. It was named both DOCTOR NYC and IDA shortlists of the best feature-length documentaries of the year.

Soundtrack to Sugarcaneby indigenous composer Mali Obomsawin (Odanak First Nation), will be released on December 10 via Hollywood Records and will be available wherever music is sold and streamed. The film focuses on the investigation into the discovery of possible mass graves at St. George’s Indian Residential School. Joseph in British Columbia, a Catholic Church-run institution where generations of indigenous children have suffered sexual, physical and psychological abuse. The film uncovers evidence that priests impregnated some girls at school and burned their children after they were born.

The United States maintained an even larger system of Indian boarding schools than Canada, most of which were run by Christian denominations, where child abuse also flourished. The intention of schools in the US and Canada was to deprive indigenous children of their language and culture and force them to accept the norms of white society. on Friday, President Biden traveled to the Gila Indian Reservation in Arizona to reckon with the damage caused by the residential school system that existed from 1819 until at least 1969.

“I formally apologize as the president of the United States of America for what we have done,” Biden said. “The federal Indian residential school policy and the pain it caused will always be a significant mark of shame and a stain on American history.”

Filmmakers Kassie and NoiseCat attended Biden’s speech on the Gila Indian Reservation. “The president’s formal apology to the survivors and their families is a true testament to the significance of what happened to children in Native American and Indian boarding schools in the U.S. and Canada,” they said in a statement. “This is a foundational story for North America, so it’s a huge honor for us Sugarcane to take part in the conversation in this moment, pushing it forward and acting as a catalyst for dialogue.”

Sugarcane It hit theaters nationwide in the U.S. and Canada this summer. In addition, the filmmakers toured First Nations and tribal communities across North America. “These Rez Tour screenings provide Indigenous communities with an accessible, intimate and safe way to experience the film before its online release,” the release said. National Geographic documentaries. “Each show is organized in partnership with First Nations and tribal community leaders and highlights local or regional resources and health supports for Indigenous people and families impacted by residential schools in Canada and Indian residential schools in the United States. The Sugarcane The “Rez Tour” began just weeks after the Department of the Interior released its latest Federal Indian Residential School Initiative investigative report, which found that nearly 1,000 children – or three – were killed at more than 400 U.S. federally funded schools. times more than in Canada.”

More recently, Oscar-nominated actress Lily Gladstone, from the Siksikaitsitapi and Nimiipuu tradition, joined Sugarcane as executive producer, along with other EPs: Bill Way, Elliott Whitton, Jenny Raskin, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Tegan Acton, Emma Pompetti, Grace Lay, Sumalee Montano, Sabrina Merage Naim, Douglas Choi, Adam and Melony Lewis, Meadow Fund , JanaLee Cherneski and Ian Desai, David and Linda Cornfield, Maida Lynn and Robin Riccitiello. The film’s co-executive producers are Kelsey Koenig, Lauren Haber, Meryl Metni and Jennifer Pelling. Carolyn Bernstein is an executive producer of National Geographic documentaries.

Photo author for Sugarcane is Christopher LaMarca and the cinematographer is Emily Kassie. The film is edited by Nathan Punwar and Maya Daisy Hawke, and the music is composed by Mali Obomsawin.

National Geographic magazine’s last Oscar nomination in the best documentary film category has arrived Bobi Wine: People’s Presidentdirected by Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp. In recent years, he has received nominations in this category for: Fire of Lovedirected by Sara Dosa, Cavedirected by Feras Fayyad, who won an Oscar (and six Emmy Awards) in 2019 for Free soloa documentary by Jimmy Chin and E. Chai Vasarhelyi about climber Alex Honnold, who scaled the treacherous El Capitan rock in Yosemite without ropes.