SUGARCANE and UNION are among the 15 films chosen for DOC NYC’s prestigious Short List. Congratulations to the filmmakers and to all the other shortlisted films.
Sugarcane
Directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie
Produced by Emily Kassie and Kellen Quinn
An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.
“Quietly devastating…SUGARCANE is the product of humane and insightful filmmakers who are determined to never let anyone forget, and put their moral outrage to exemplary good use.”
Union
Directed by Stephen Maing and Brett Story
Produced by Samantha Curley and Mars Verrone
The Amazon Labor Union (ALU)—a group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City’s Staten Island—takes on one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies in the fight to unionize.
“A raw examination of labor organization at its most powerful, pure, and fragile…Maing and Story’s honesty and remove from the filmmaking process has produced an unvarnished, raw document that offers up a slice of history: warts and all.”