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Emily Kassie

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
1

Gender
Female

Birthday
December 15, 1992 (33 years old)

Place of Birth
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Emily Kassie

Biography

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.

Known For

Directing

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

Production

2024Sugarcane...Producer
2020Anatomy of Hate...Producer
2020Undocumented in the Pandemic...Producer
2018A Girl Named C...Producer
2018I Just Simply Did What He Wanted...Producer
2018Explained...Producer
2017Into the Deluge...Producer
2014I Married My Family's Killer...Producer
2014Break Kids...Producer

Camera

2024Sugarcane...Director of Photography
2020Anatomy of Hate...Director of Photography
2020Undocumented in the Pandemic...Director of Photography
2018I Just Simply Did What He Wanted...Director of Photography
2014I Married My Family's Killer...Director of Photography
2014Ward Hall: King of the Sideshow...Director of Photography
2014Break Kids...Director of Photography

Writing

2024Sugarcane...Writer
2020Undocumented in the Pandemic...Writer
2014I Married My Family's Killer...Writer
2014Ward Hall: King of the Sideshow...Writer
2014Break Kids...Writer

Crew

2020Undocumented in the Pandemic...Cinematography

Editing

2018I Just Simply Did What He Wanted...Editor
2014Break Kids...Editor

Acting

2010Scott Pilgrim vs. the Worldas Winifred Hailey