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Emily Kassie (b. 1992)

Alias:
Эмили Кэсси

Birthplace:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Born:
December 15, 1992

Biography from TheMovieDB

Emily Kassie (born 15 December 1992; Toronto) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, investigative journalist, and cinematographer. Her debut feature documentary Sugarcane premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Directing Award.  In 2016, Kassie won the World Press Photo award for multimedia on the cover up of DuPont's chemical spill in West Virginia and was also named one of NPPA's 2016 multimedia portfolios of the year for her work on radicalization of ISIS operatives and corruption in the pharmaceutical industry. In 2017 she won an Overseas Press Club Award, a National Magazine Award and the ASNE's Punch Sulzberger award for her work reporting on the profiteers of the refugee crisis, in Niger, Turkey, Italy and Germany.  In 2019, she won the World Press Photo award and was nominated for an Emmy for her New York Times documentary on sexual abuse in immigrant detention. In 2020, she won a National Magazine Award for her immersive documentary on immigrant detention and was nominated for a Peabody Award.She was named to Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2020. In 2021, she was nominated for an Emmy for a Frontline documentary on undocumented immigrants in the pandemic.  She was part of the PBS NewsHour team to win the Overseas Press Club award for a series on the fall of Afghanistan in 2021.  She served as director, producer and cinematographer of Sugarcane with co-director Julian Brave NoiseCat. The film won the Grand Jury Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Film Production

Cinematography:
2020  Undocumented in the Pandemic

Director:
2014  Break Kids
2014  I Married My Family's Killer
2014  Ward Hall: King of the Sideshow
2017  Into the Deluge
2018  A Girl Named C
2018  Banished
2018  I Just Simply Did What He Wanted
2020  Anatomy of Hate
2020  Detained
2020  Undocumented in the Pandemic
2024  Sugarcane

Director of Photography:
2014  Break Kids
2014  I Married My Family's Killer
2014  Ward Hall: King of the Sideshow
2017  Into the Deluge
2018  A Girl Named C
2018  Banished
2018  I Just Simply Did What He Wanted
2020  Anatomy of Hate
2020  Detained
2020  Undocumented in the Pandemic
2024  Sugarcane

Editor:
2014  Break Kids
2014  I Married My Family's Killer
2014  Ward Hall: King of the Sideshow
2017  Into the Deluge
2018  A Girl Named C
2018  Banished
2018  I Just Simply Did What He Wanted
2020  Anatomy of Hate
2020  Detained
2020  Undocumented in the Pandemic
2024  Sugarcane

Producer:
2014  Break Kids
2014  I Married My Family's Killer
2014  Ward Hall: King of the Sideshow
2017  Into the Deluge
2018  A Girl Named C
2018  Banished
2018  I Just Simply Did What He Wanted
2020  Anatomy of Hate
2020  Detained
2020  Undocumented in the Pandemic
2024  Sugarcane

Writer:
2014  Break Kids
2014  I Married My Family's Killer
2014  Ward Hall: King of the Sideshow
2017  Into the Deluge
2018  A Girl Named C
2018  Banished
2018  I Just Simply Did What He Wanted
2020  Anatomy of Hate
2020  Detained
2020  Undocumented in the Pandemic
2024  Sugarcane

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TV Production

Director:
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2018  Explained

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