Sugarcane

National Geographic Documentary Films Debuts Trailer for Sundance Award-Winner Sugarcane

(LOS ANGELES, CA – July 10, 2024) Today, National Geographic Documentary Films released the official trailer and key art for its forthcoming film SUGARCANE, from first-time director and TIME100 Next honoree Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emmy®- and Peabody-nominated investigative journalist, director, producer and cinematographer Emily Kassie. SUGARCANE will be released by Variance Films in the U.S. and by Films We Like in Canada on Aug. 9 and will stream later this year on Hulu and Disney+. “Enlightening and infuriating” (Variety), SUGARCANE is an epic, nuanced and sensitive cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning. Amidst the groundbreaking investigation into abuse and deaths at an Indian residential school in Canada, the film’s courageous participants break cycles of intergenerational trauma by facing painful, long-ignored truths and rebuilding broken family bonds. After making its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year — where