SUGRCANE (2024)
SUGARCANE (National Geographic) premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Directing Award: U.S. Documentary, and has since garnered over a dozen awards and was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards in 2025. Sugarcane is in theaters now and will stream on Disney+ and Hulu.
The debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning.
In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada, sparking a national outcry and setting off searches across North America. After years of silence, the forced separation, assimilation and abuse many children experienced at these segregated boarding schools is coming to light.
Scored by Mali Obomsawin.
Shaaghan Neekwaii (Two Old Women)
“Two Old Women” is an adaptation of Velma Wallis’ novel of the same name – and in the new film, the story is told entirely in Gwich’in. It premiered in Hawai’i last month, with homecoming showings scheduled in Alaska in December.
Written and directed by Princess Daazhraii Johnson
Scored by Mali Obomsawin
OTHERWORLD
A poetic documentary exploring Abenaki ancestral memory and connection to Allen Island, the site of first contact with the English in 1605, which was bought and curated by the wife of American painter Andrew Wyeth three centuries later in hopes of enticing her husband’s inspiration. Premiering at Blackstar Film Festival in 2025, the film has since shown at Camden International Film Festival and will show at Seattle International Film Festival in 2026.
Directed, filmed, and edited by Lokotah Sanborn.
Written, narrated and scored by Mali Obomsawin.