Emily Kassie

Directing
BirthdayDec 15, 1992 (32 years old)
Place of birthToronto, Ontario, Canada
GenderFemale

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

Winifred Hailey

Aug 12, 2010

Winifred Hailey

Aug 12, 2010

Acting


Participated in 12 movies, 1 TV series

2024

Producer, Director, Director of Photography, Writer


2020

Director


2020

Director, Producer, Director of Photography


2020

Producer, Writer, Director, Cinematography, Director of Photography


2018

Producer, Director


2018

Director


2018

Director, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography


2018

Director, Producer


2017

Director, Producer


2014

Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography


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